Ernst Friedrich Germar

Ernst Friedrich Germar (3 November 1786 – 8 July 1853) was a German professor and director of the Mineralogical Museum at Halle.

His two older and a younger brother went to study trade but Ernst went to a grammar school in Meiningen at the age of twelve under the care of Schaubach, a relative of his father.

He also began to purchase insect specimens including those of Fabricius from Hubner in Halle at a great cost of 400 thalers.

He studied under Sprengel and wrote a thesis Dissertatio sistens bombycum spesies, secundum oris partium diversitatem in nova genera distributas in 1810 for his doctorate.

In 1811 he travelled to Dalmatia making collections and in 1812 he defended a second doctorate and joined as a director for the mineral cabinet at Halle.