Hermann von Ihering
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Hermann von Ihering (9 October 1850 - 24 February 1930) was a German-Brazilian zoologist. He was born at Kiel, Germany, and died at Büdingen, Hesse, Germany. He was the son of Rudolf von Jhering.
Ihering travelled to Brazil in 1880 and got his first work at the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro, in Rio de Janeiro. He was the founder and first director of the Museu Paulista, in São Paulo in 1894. He was the author of Catálogos da Fauna Brasileira (1907) with his son Rudolpho von Ihering.