Oskar Heinroth

Life and work

The story behind the role.

German zoologist (1871-1945).

Oskar Heinroth (1 March 1871 – 31 May 1945) was a German biologist who was one of the first to apply the methods of comparative morphology to animal behavior, and was thus one of the founders of ethology. He worked, largely isolated from most other scientists of the period, at the Berlin Aquarium where he took care of fishes, reptiles and birds, especially waterfowl. He died under Soviet interrogation in Berlin on 31 May 1945.

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