Albert John Hesse

He was a curator at the Iziko South African Museum for fifty one years.

[2] He started his university education at the South African College in Cape Town in 1916 but moved to the Transvaal University College in Pretoria in 1917 where he majored in Chemistry, Zoology and Geology.

He obtained a BSc.Hons degree in 1918 and completed his PhD in Zoology and Parasitology at the University of Edinburgh in 1922.

[2][3] He conducted post-doctoral research in Parasitology until 1924 when he accepted the post of entomologist at the South African Museum.

During his period of service at the museum he went on frequent field trips so South West Africa, the Western and Eastern Cape and the Karoo.