David Friedrich Weinland (1829–1915)

German theologian and zoologist. Travelled extensively in North America and Haiti. Assistant to Louis Agassiz, 1855–8. Lecturer in zoology at the Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt, and secretary of the Zoological Society, 1858. Founder and editor of Der zoologische Garten, 1859. Director of the Senckenberg naturalists’ society, 1859–63.