Education
He studied mathematics and natural sciences at the Universities of Halle and Berlin, afterwards working as an unpaid volunteer at the Berlin Zoological Museum under Jean Cabanis (1816-1906).
He studied mathematics and natural sciences at the Universities of Halle and Berlin, afterwards working as an unpaid volunteer at the Berlin Zoological Museum under Jean Cabanis (1816-1906).
In 1924 he was appointed second director at the museum. During the years 1891–1893, he described 11 new species of reptiles. A species of gecko, Hemidactylus matschiei (Tornier, 1901), is named in his honor.
Matschie"s tree-kangaroo (Dendrolagus matschiei ) and Matschie"s galago (Galago matschiei ) are two species of mammals which bear his name.