Heinrich Mendelssohn

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Professor Heinrich Mendelssohn was born in Berlin, Germany on October 31, 1910 and died in his home in Ramat Chen on November 19, 2002. Since his childhood he had taken a keen interest in animals but, at his parents' request, he studied medicine in Berlin.

He was a member of the Zionist youth movements “Kadima” and “Blau-Weiss”, and with the rise of the Nazi movement to power in 1933 he immigrated to Palestine, then under British mandate. Palestine of the time did not yet have a Faculty of Medicine, enabling him to realize his ambitions and transfer to the study of zoology at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. There he completed his M.Sc. (on the biology and variability of the desert snail Sphincterochila boisseri) and his Ph.D. (on population density of birds in Israel), both under the supervision of Prof. Shimon Bodenheimer.

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