Wilhelm Meise

He was curator of vertebrates at the Museum of Natural History in Dresden from 1929 until World War II.

[2][3] He spent three years in a prison camp in Siberia after the war, and joined the Berlin's Natural History Museum in 1948.

[1] During the 1950s, Meise was the President of the Jordsand Club for the Protection of Seabirds at a time when such endeavours were at an early stage.

He undertook an expedition to Angola in 1955 and, during the following years, published several papers on geographical variation, speciation, and evolution of African birds.

[5] Meise's 170 publications dealt mainly with birds, but occasionally with the taxonomy of scorpions, spiders, lizards, snakes, and molluscs.