Richard Hesse was a German

Germany

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 zoologist and ecologist.

Hesse took his PhD in 1892 from the University of Tübingen and was subsequently appointed lecturer, later extraordinary professor (1901) of zoology

Zoology

Zoology |zoölogy]]), is the branch of biology that relates to the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct...

 at the same university. In 1909, he became professor of zoology

Zoology

Zoology |zoölogy]]), is the branch of biology that relates to the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct...

 at the Agricultural School in Berlin

Berlin

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 (Landwirtschaftliche Hochschule Berlin) and in 1914 at the University of Bonn

University of Bonn

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. From 1926-1935 he was a professor and director of the zoological institute at the University of Berlin.

Hesse worked in the spirit of Karl August Möbius with biogeography

Biogeography

Biogeography is the study of the distribution of species , organisms, and ecosystems in space and through geological time. Organisms and biological communities vary in a highly regular fashion along geographic gradients of latitude, elevation, isolation and habitat area...

 and ecology

Ecology

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 of vertebrates. He published Tierbau und Tierleben [translated title: Animal form and life] in 1910 together with Franz Theodor Doflein. In 1924, he published his Tiergeographie auf Ökologischer Grundlage. The title of this work paraphrases Schimper's

Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper

Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper was a botanist and phytogeographer who made major contributions in the fields of histology, ecology and plant geography.-Biography:...

 classical Pflanzengeographie auf Physiologischer Grundlage (1898). The book was translated to English

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 as Ecological Animal Geography (1937) by W.C. Allee

Warder Clyde Allee

Warder Clyde Allee was an American zoologist and ecologist who taught animal ecology. He is best known for his research on animal behavior, protocooperation, and for identifying the Allee effect.-University career:...

 and Karl P. Schmidt

Karl Patterson Schmidt

Karl Patterson Schmidt was an American herpetologist.-Biography:Schmidt was the son of George W. Schmidt and Margaret Patterson Schmidt. Schmidt's father was a German professor who, at the time of Schmidt's birth, was teaching in Lake Forest, Illinois. His family left the city in 1907 and settled...

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