Alfred Nehring

Alfred Nehring ( born January 29, 1845 in Gander home; † September 29, 1904 in Berlin- Charlottenburg ) was a German professor and from 1881 Head of Zoology at the Agricultural College in Berlin, as well as a zoologist and paleontologist.

He explored mummified, domesticated guinea pigs from the dead fields of Ancon / Peru and collected vital data, which he compared explored by Tschudi (1818-1889) Wild guinea pigs with those of the Swiss zoologist Johann Jacob, and domestication differences documented in writing. Whereupon he noted as the first, that the guinea pig as a pet of the Incas was due to a subspecies of the wild type.

Works

• About tundra and steppes of now and Prehistory: with particular reference to its fauna. F. Dümmler, Berlin 1890 ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
• Fossil horses from German diluvial deposits and their relationships to the living horses. A contribution to the history of the domestic horse. Parey, Berlin 1884.
• New finds of diluvial animal remains from Possneck in Thuringia. In: Proceedings of the Society Nature Research- friends to Berlin. 1899, pp. 99-101.
• The priority of the genus name Cricetus. In: Zoologischer Anzeiger. , 1900.
• The geological views of the philosopher Seneca. E.T. Binseil successor, Wolfenbüttel 1873.