Alfred Brehm, German zoologist, author, and illustrator (born 1827)

Alfred Brehm

German zoologist and writer (1829–1884)

Alfred Edmund Brehm was a German zoologist and writer. His multi-volume book Brehms Tierleben, which he co-authored with Eduard Pechuël-Loesche, Wilhelm Haacke, and Richard Schmidtlein, became a household word for popular zoological literature. He was the first director of the…