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Paul Kramer
1842–1898
A 19th-century German educator and biologist, he is remembered especially for his work on arachnids and mites. His writing sits at the meeting point of teaching, natural history, and careful scientific observation.
1 Audiobook
Die Tier- und Pflanzenwelt des Süsswassers. Zweiter Band.
by C. (Carl Heinrich) Apstein, Friedrich Borcherding, Stephan Clessin, Paul Kramer, E. Schmidt-Schwedt, Arthur Seligo, Friedrich Zschokke
About the author
Born in Berlin on December 3, 1842, and dying in Magdeburg on October 30, 1898, Paul Kramer was a German pedagogue, school official, and biologist. Reference sources consistently identify him as Matthias Paul Kramer, and several also note his work as an arachnologist.
Kramer is especially associated with the study of mites and related arachnids. Biodiversity and species databases credit him as an author in zoological literature, including work connected with Demodicidae und Sarcoptidae, published shortly after his death.
For listeners coming to him through older scientific writing, Kramer represents a period when many scholars moved easily between education and natural history. His work reflects that 19th-century habit of combining close observation, classification, and public learning.