Eduard Reichenow

He studied natural sciences in Heidelberg, Berlin and Munich, and received his doctorate in 1908.

From 1913 onward, he served as a government zoologist in Kamerun, where he did studies on the biology of the malaria pathogen.

From 1916 to 1919 he conducted research at the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales in Madrid, and in 1921 was appointed director of the protozoology department at the Schiffs- und Tropenkrankheiten in Hamburg.

[3] In 1932 Alfred Kahl named the protozoan genus Reichenowella (family Reichenowellidae  [fr]) in his honor.

[8][9][10] Reichenow married his former student and long-term collaborator Lilly Mudrow on 11 February 1946.