Background
He was born at Kiel, Germany, and died at Gießen, Germany. He was the oldest son of Rudolf von Jhering.
Ichthyologist ornithologist paleontologist physician teacher Zoologist
He was born at Kiel, Germany, and died at Gießen, Germany. He was the oldest son of Rudolf von Jhering.
Ihering studied medicine at the Giessen, Leipzig, and Berlin, and Göttingen, working as an assistant at the zoological institute in Göttingen.
He later worked as a Privatdozent for zoology at the Erlangen and Leipzig. Ihering travelled to Brazil in 1880 and got his first work at the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro, in Rio de Janeiro. Meta died 1928. The Brazilian water mite Unionicola iheringi (Koenike, 1890) is named in his honour.