Emil Adolf Rossmässler

Emil Adolf Rossmässler (Emil Adolf Roßmäßler, Emil Adolph Roßmäßler) (March 3, 1806 in Leipzig – April 8, 1867 in Leipzig) was a German biologist. With Otto Eduard Vincenz Ule and Karl Johann August Müller, he was co-founder of the journal Die Natur in 1852 and 1859 the sole editor of the journal Aus der Heimath. Rossmässler was a pioneer and the leading advocate of popularizing science in nineteenth-century Germany. He also belonged to the early writers on the building and maintenance of freshwater aquariums. Rossmässler edited the exsiccata Plantae Lipsienses, Weidanae et Tharandtinae (c. 1831).

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