Hermann August Hagen
1817–93
German-born surgeon and entomologist. MD, Königsberg, 1840. Surgeon in Königsberg, 1843–66. Published several volumes on termites, 1855–60. With the help of Carl von Osten-Sacken in the US, published Synopsis of the Neuroptera of North America (1861). Emigrated to the US at the invitation of Louis Agassiz; assistant in entomology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard, 1867. Assistant professor, 1868; professor, 1870.
Source
ANB.
Bibliography
ANB: American national biography. Edited by John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. 24 vols. and supplement. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1999–2002.
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