Alfred Otto Herz was a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera

Lepidoptera

Lepidoptera is a large order of insects that includes moths and butterflies . It is one of the most widespread and widely recognizable insect orders in the world, encompassing moths and the three superfamilies of butterflies, skipper butterflies, and moth-butterflies...

 and Coleoptera.
He was employed as a collector and preparator by the Otto Staudinger

Otto Staudinger

Otto Staudinger was a German entomologist and a natural history dealer considered one of the largest in the world specialising in the collection and sale of insects to museums, scientific institutions, and individuals....

 - Andreas Bang-Haas

Andreas Bang-Haas

Andreas Bang-Haas was a Danish entomologist and insect dealer.In 1879 he entered into the business of the insect dealer Otto Staudinger.He married Staudinger's daughter in 1880 and became co-owner of the firm, now "Staudinger & Bang-Haas", in 1884 or 1887.The business was eventually taken over by...

 insect dealership in Dresden.

Otto Herz went on entomological expeditions to Transcaucasia , Buchara , Persia, Kamchatka, "Jakutien" (on a Mammoth

Mammoth

A mammoth is any species of the extinct genus Mammuthus. These proboscideans are members of Elephantidae, the family of elephants and mammoths, and close relatives of modern elephants. They were often equipped with long curved tusks and, in northern species, a covering of long hair...

 collecting expedition), China

China

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, Korea

Korea

Korea ) is an East Asian geographic region that is currently divided into two separate sovereign states — North Korea and South Korea. Located on the Korean Peninsula, Korea is bordered by the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and is separated from Japan to the...

 , Japan

Japan

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, Hainan

Hainan

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 , and Siam partly funded by Nicholas Mikhailovich Romanoff

Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia

Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia , 26 April 1859 – 28 January 1919 was the eldest son of Grand Duke Michael Nicolaievich of Russia and a first cousin of Alexander III....

 who also purchased material directly from Herz or through Staundinger.

Many of the Lepidoptera collected by Herz were described by Sergei Alphéraky

Sergei Alphéraky

Sergei Nikolaevich Alphéraky was a Russian ornithologist and entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera.Sergei Alphéraky was born into a noble Greek family of Alferakis, brother to composer Achilles Alferaki, his father Nikos Alferakis owned the Alferaki Palace in Taganrog...

.His collected insects are in the Zoological Museum of the Russian Academy of Science (including the Romanoff insects) other than that sold elsewhere by the dealership.