Hermann Martin Asmuss (31 May 1812 – 6 December 1859) was a Baltic German paleozoologist and professor at the Imperial University of Dorpat.

Life

Asmuss was born in Dorpat, present-day

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, the son of the writer Johann Martin Asmuss and Christine Luise Asmuss, ''née'' Luhde. He studied at the Imperial University of Dorpat and received his doctorate from the Albertus University of Königsberg. In 1857 he was made a full professor and director of the Cabinet of Natural History at the University of Tartu. His main field of work was in classifying

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. The lizard species '' Saara asmussi'' is named after him. In 1856, he published ''Das vollkommenste Hautskelet der bisher bekannten Thierreihe''.Hermann Martin Asmuss
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1812 births 1859 deaths Scientists from Tartu People from Kreis Dorpat Baltic-German people from the Russian Empire Estonian paleontologists Paleontologists from the Russian Empire Paleozoologists Estonian zoologists University of Tartu alumni University of Königsberg alumni Academic staff of the University of Tartu {{Estonia-scientist-stub