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Mar 11, 1842 Liepāja, Latvia Died on 05 Nov 1897 (aged 55)
German zoologist
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About Nicolaus Kleinenberg
- Nicolaus Kleinenberg (11 March 1842, in Libau – 5 November 1897, in Naples) was a Baltic German zoologist and evolutionary morphologist. He studied at the University of Jena under Ernst Haeckel, obtaining his doctorate for studies of embryo cleavage in Hydra.
- His later work Hydra - Eine anatomisch-entwicklungsgeschichtliche untersuchung, in English "An anatomical-evolutionary investigation of Hydra" (Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann, 1872) is a classic, still quoted monograph which has implications for evolution theory. Kleinenberg was a close friend of Anton Dohrn, helping him to found the marine station at Messina, where he was professor.
- He worked with Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov and Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow on their visits to Messina.
- Kleinenberg and Hugo Eisig were the first assistants at Stazione Zoologica in Naples.
