Theodor Knottnerus-Meyer

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☨ Theodor Knottnerus-Meyer

Profession	zoo director
Personal details
Born	1876 Hohenhameln in Germany

Dead	1934 in Italy

Residence
Country	Italy

Locations
Title	director 1910-1926
Location	at Rome Zoo in Italy

Title	zoologist-1910
Location	at Carl Hagenbecks Tierpark (Stellingen) in Germany

Biography details

Theodor Christian Bernhard Knottnerus-Meyer , zoo director in Italy

Knottnerus-Meyer was born * 1876 in Hohenhameln Germany dead 1934 , in Italy .

Previously zoologist in Carl Hagenbecks Tierpark, Knottnerus-Meyer became Rome Zoos first Director.

After resigning from the directorship of the Giardino Zoologico in Rome in 1925 (probably after a lethal incident of the German zookeeper Oettershagen with a tiger) , Dr Knottnerus-Meyer maintained close contacts with Prince Francesco Chigi della Rovere (who was the President of the Zoo in 1911). He provided some papers for Italian nature journals, this one being the last one published on Rassegna Faunistica in 1934. At the end of the paper the death of Knottnerus-Meyer is announced.

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Theodor Knottnerus-Meyer is mentioned on 1 location pagesRome Zoo,

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). director Theodor Christian Bernhard Knottnerus-Meyer in Italy. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 12 May 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/person.php?id=2239. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Sources used for this article is among others:

Selected publications

Knottnerus-Meyer, T. 1907. Über das Tränenbein der Huftiere. Vergleichend-anatomischer Beitrag zur Systematik der rezenten Ungulata. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 73(1): 1–152
KNOTTNERUS-MEYER T., 1925. Nel Giardino Zoologico. Osservazioni e studi. Maglione & Strini, Roma, 417 pp.
Hunderassen - Rassenhunde, German National Library, National Library of the Netherlands
Tiere im Zoo Beobachtgn e. Tierfreundes, German National Library
Über das Tränenbein der Huftiere vergleichend-anatomischer Beitrag zur Systematik der rezenten Ungulata, German National Library
Wald und Wild
Zoologisches Wörterbuch

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