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German zoologist (1894–1968)

Erna Mohr Born (1894-07-11)July 11, 1894 Hamburg, German Empire Died September 10, 1968(1968-09-10) (aged 74) Hamburg, West Germany Scientific career Fields Mammalogy Ichthyology Institutions Zoological Museum Hamburg

**Erna W. Mohr** (July 11, 1894 – September 10, 1968) was a German zoologist who made contributions to [ichthyology](/source/Ichthyology) and [mammalogy](/source/Mammalogy). Mohr was long associated with the [Zoological Museum Hamburg](/source/Zoological_Museum_Hamburg), where she was successively head of the Fish Biology Department, Department of Higher Vertebrates, and Curator of the Vertebrate Department. She was a member of the [Academy of Sciences Leopoldina](/source/Academy_of_Sciences_Leopoldina) and held an honorary doctorate from the [Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München](/source/Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit%C3%A4t_M%C3%BCnchen).[1][2]

Mohr was born in [Hamburg](/source/Hamburg), the daughter of a school teacher, and aside from some time in [Schleswig-Holstein](/source/Schleswig-Holstein) lived for most of her life in Hamburg. Between 1914 and 1934 she taught high school while volunteering at the [Zoological Museum Hamburg](/source/Zoological_Museum_Hamburg) and also published scholarly and popular scientific articles. At the Zoological Museum she began working with [Ernst Ehrenbaum](/source/Ernst_Ehrenbaum) on [age determination in fishes](/source/Age_determination_in_fish), where she is credited to have been the first to use [ctenoid scales](/source/Ctenoid_scale) to estimate age.[1] She later worked with [Georg Duncker](/source/Georg_Duncker) on fish taxonomy, including works on the [viviparous halfbeaks](/source/Viviparous_halfbeak) (Zenarchopteridae), [sand lances](/source/Sand_lance) (Ammodytidae) and [shrimpfish](/source/Centriscidae) (Centriscidae). After Duncker's retirement in 1934, Mohr became head of the Fish Biology department, and in 1936 became head of the Department of Higher Vertebrates. She became Curator of the Vertebrate Department in 1946.[1]

She also worked extensively with mammals, publishing on rodents, seals, hoofed-mammals, and other groups.[3] She became a member of the [American Society of Mammalogists](/source/American_Society_of_Mammalogists) in 1928,[4][a] and in 1959 she wrote a monograph on the endangered [Przewalski's horse](/source/Przewalski's_horse), a "pre-emininet compendium... that can never be surpassed for its firsthand accounts of the early history of the species".[5] She compiled studbooks for the Przewalski's horse and [European bison](/source/European_bison), and was active in reintroduction efforts for the latter.[6][7]

Mohr produced over 400 publications during her career. She received an honorary doctorate from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in 1950.[1] In 1966 she was elected an Honorary Member of the American Society of Mammalogists, the Society's most esteemed honor, and as of 1996 was the only woman to have been so rewarded.[4][3]

Mohr died in Hamburg in 1968. She was buried in the [Ohlsdorf Cemetery](/source/Ohlsdorf_Cemetery)'s Garden of Women, with a statue of a [hutia](/source/Hutia) (a large rodent) marking her grave.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*]

A [hutia](/source/Hutia) statue stands beside Mohr's grave in [Ohlsdorf Cemetery](/source/Ohlsdorf_Cemetery).

## Legacy

A species of fossil salamander (*Grippiella mohrae*)[8] and bat mite (*Ichoronyssus mohrae*)[9] were named after Mohr. In 1984, on what would have been her 90th birthday, a street in [Neuallermöhe](/source/Neuallerm%C3%B6he), Hamburg, was named *Erna Mohr Kehre* ("Erna Mohr Turn").[10]

Starting from the German *Enzyklopädie der Tiere* ("Encyclopedia of the animals") edited by Wilhelm Eigener and publisher by [Westermann Verlag](/source/Westermann_Verlag) in 1971 for its first edition, Mohr wrote the mammal's section of the 2 Volumes *Enciclopedia degli Animali* (Capitol editions, [Bologna](/source/Bologna), 1980).[11]

## Notes

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Mohr's membership was temporarily dropped in the late 1940s due to her inability to send membership dues during and following World War II.[4]

## See also

- [Category:Taxa named by Erna Mohr](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Taxa_named_by_Erna_Mohr)

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Brown1994_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Brown1994_1-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-Brown1994_1-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-Brown1994_1-3) Brown, Patricia Stocking (1994). ["Early women ichthyologists"](https://swfsc.noaa.gov/uploadedFiles/Education/Women%20in%20Ichthyology.pdf) (PDF). *Environmental Biology of Fishes*. **41** (1–4): 9–30. [Bibcode](/source/Bibcode_(identifier)):[1994EnvBF..41....9S](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1994EnvBF..41....9S). [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1007/bf02197830](https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fbf02197830). [S2CID](/source/S2CID_(identifier)) [189875126](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:189875126).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Hubbs1969_2-0)** Hubbs, Carl L. (1969). "Erna Mohr July 11, 1894–September 10, 1968". *Copeia*. **1969** (3): 646. [JSTOR](/source/JSTOR_(identifier)) [1441963](https://www.jstor.org/stable/1441963).

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-ASM_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-ASM_3-1) Taylor, J. Mary; Schlitter, Duane A. (1994). ["Awardees"](https://archive.org/stream/seventyfiveyears00birn#page/88/mode/2up). In Birney, Elmer C.; Choate, Jerry R. (eds.). [*Seventy-five Years of Mammalogy, 1919-1994*](https://archive.org/details/seventyfiveyears00birn/page/71). American Society of Mammalogists. pp. [71–109](https://archive.org/details/seventyfiveyears00birn/page/71). [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0935868739](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0935868739).

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Kaufman_et_al_1996_4-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Kaufman_et_al_1996_4-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-Kaufman_et_al_1996_4-2) Kaufman, Dawn M.; Kaufman, Donald W.; Kaufman, Glennis A. (1996). ["Women in the Early Years of the American Society of Mammalogists (1919-1949)"](https://doi.org/10.2307%2F1382670). *Journal of Mammalogy*. **77** (3): 642. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.2307/1382670](https://doi.org/10.2307%2F1382670). [JSTOR](/source/JSTOR_(identifier)) [1382670](https://www.jstor.org/stable/1382670).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-BoydHoupt1994_6-0)** Lee Boyd; Katherine A. Houpt (1994). [*Przewalski's Horse: The History and Biology of an Endangered Species*](https://books.google.com/books?id=Bvg99Qq54nUC&pg=PA61). SUNY Press. p. 2. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-7914-1889-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7914-1889-5).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-KrasińskaKrasiński2013_7-0)** Małgorzata Krasińska; Zbigniew Krasiński (June 19, 2013). [*European Bison: The Nature Monograph*](https://books.google.com/books?id=nR1GAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA16). Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 16–. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-3-642-36555-3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3-642-36555-3).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Corporation2001_8-0)** ["Bison"](https://books.google.com/books?id=Lz9OvdnTGzoC&pg=PA153). *Endangered Wildlife and Plants of the World*. Vol. II. Marshall Cavendish. 2001. pp. 153–154. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-7614-7196-7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7614-7196-7).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** Martín, C.; Alonso-Zarazaga, M. A.; Sanchiz, B. (2012). ["Nomenclatural notes on living and fossil amphibians"](http://graellsia.revistas.csic.es/index.php/graellsia/article/viewFile/436/437). *Graellsia*. **68** (1): 159. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.3989/graellsia.2012.v68.056](https://doi.org/10.3989%2Fgraellsia.2012.v68.056).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-10)** Vitzthum, H. Graf (1931). "Neue parasitische Fledermausmilben aus Venezuela". *Zeitschrift für Parasitenkunde*. **4** (1): 1–47. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1007/BF02122048](https://doi.org/10.1007%2FBF02122048). [S2CID](/source/S2CID_(identifier)) [31991057](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:31991057).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-11)** Bake, Rita (2005). "Erna-Mohr-Kehre". [*Wer steckt dahinter? Nach frauen benannte Strassen, Plätze und Brücken in Hamburg*](http://epub.sub.uni-hamburg.de/epub/volltexte/2007/52/pdf/wer_steckt_dahinter_pdf_960kbpropertysource.pdf) (PDF) (in German) (4th ed.). Hamburg: Landeszentrale für politische Bildung. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [3-929728-29-X](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/3-929728-29-X).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-12)** [Italian Books and Periodicals, Vol. 23, dency of the Council of Ministers, Information and Copyright Services, 1980, 1980](https://books.google.com/books?id=WgfkAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Enciclopedia+degli+animali%22%2Bcapitol%2Bbologna), a book coauthored with Dr. [Joachim Steinbacher](/source/Joachim_Steinbacher) (ornithology section), Konrad Klemmer (reptiles), Dr. W. Ladiges (fishes), Dr. Wolfgang Dierl (insects), Dr. Max Seilnik (spiders), and the Italian supervision of Dr. Paolo Boldreghini and Mario Spagnesi

## External links

- Media related to [Erna Mohr](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Erna_Mohr) at Wikimedia Commons

- [Works by Erna Mohr](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/creator/136087) at the [Biodiversity Heritage Library](/source/Biodiversity_Heritage_Library)

- [Erna Mohr files, circa 1939-1940](https://wcsarchives.libraryhost.com/repositories/2/archival_objects/25148) at the [Wildlife Conservation Society](/source/Wildlife_Conservation_Society) Archives

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