Hermann Landois

He belonged to the Catholic popularizers of science who gained attraction in late nineteenth-century Germany.

[1] He studied natural sciences and Catholic theology in Münster, where he was ordained as a priest in 1859.

[2] In 1871 he founded the Westfälischen Vereins für Vogelschutz, Geflügel- und Singvögelzucht (Westphalian Association for bird protection, poultry and songbird breeding), and during the following year founded the Zoologischen Sektion für Westfalen und Lippe (Zoological Division of Westphalia and Lippe).

[2] In 1875, he founded the Westphalian Zoo in Münster, a preserve with emphasis on European domestic mammals.

By the end of 1882, the site had "niche displays" (dioramas) representing fauna from Australia, the North Sea coast, German forests, the African landscape, as well as a section that contained fossils from prehistoric Westphalia.