Hermann Strebel

He was also introduced by Berendt to zoology and archeology In 1860 he married Inés Mahn, a merchant's daughter, born in Mexico.

Through contact with other German malacologists he published from 1873 to 1882 his first scientific papers on the Mexican land and freshwater molluscs.

His book on the fauna of Mexico was published in 1882, after six years' work and was acclaimed as one of the best and most detailed faunistic monographs of the subject.

He asked a befriended family in Mexico to perform archaeological excavations at various locations The results became his scientific collection in Hamburg.

His writings on this subject are comprised in ten treatises, of which two volumes on Old Mexico and some more recent studies of ornaments and earthen vessels.

Hermann Strebel received in 1906 the Loubat Prize of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Berlin.