Bruno Dürigen

Dürigen was born in Erdmannsdorf (now part of Augustusburg) near Chemnitz in Saxony to Wilhelm Eduard (born 1817), a master saddler and pigeon fancier from Oberlichtenau who had purchased a home in 848 and married Clara Auguste Thieme in 1849.

He trained in Zschopau as a teacher and was appointed in the Erzgebirge area and then to Dresden where he met Anton Reichenow.

In 1874 he taught at a grammar school in Berlin-Steglitz and at the same time attended classes in botany and zoology at Berlin University.

He quit editing in 1884 for unknown reasons and in 1890 he became an editor for an aquarium and terrarium magazine.

He was appointed a lecturer of poultry science in the agricultural academy in Berlin in 1906–07 and in 1925 made an honorary professor.