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.

[1] 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.

[2] Rossmässler edited the exsiccata Plantae Lipsienses, Weidanae et Tharandtinae (c.