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Julius von Kennel (10 June 1854 – 24 January 1939) was a German zoologist and entomologist born in Schwegenheim.
He studied at the University of Würzburg, where he came under the influence of zoologist Karl Semper (1832-1893). Later, he worked as an assistant to Karl August Möbius (1825-1908) at the University of Kiel, and following his habilitation, he returned to the University of Würzburg. In 1882-83 he participated on a research expedition to Trinidad and Venezuela (including the Orinoco River region). Later, he served as a lecturer at the Forstakademie in Aschaffenburg, and from 1887 to 1915, was a full professor of zoology at the University of Dorpat.
Kennel was an authority on Microlepidoptera, and in particular the family- Tortricidae (tortrix moths). In 1898-99 he was president of the Estonian Naturalists' Society, and in 1922 became director of the zoological museum in Riga.
Written works
- 1883: Biologische und faunistische Notizen aus Trinidad. 28 pp. - Biological and faunistic notes from Trinidad.
- 1887: Über Theilung und Knospung der Thiere. 60 pp.
- 1891: Die Verwandtschaftsverhältnisse der Arthropoden, K. F. Koehler. 48 pp. - Relationships of arthropods.
- 1893: Lehrbuch der Zoologie. Stuttgart: Ferdinand Enke. 678 pp. - Textbook of zoology.
- 1896: Studien über sexuellen Dimorphismus: Variation und verwandte Erscheinungen. Druck von C. Mattiesen. 64 pp. - Studies of sexual dimorphism: variation and related phenomena.
- 1921, The Palaearktischen Tortriciden, eine monographische Darstellung. Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung. 742 pp. - Palaearctic Tortricidae, a monograph.
- 1923, Ueber Ctenodrilus Pardalis Clap, Ein Beitr. Zur Kenntniss Der Anatomie Und Knospung Der Anneliden, Neuauflage BiblioBazaar, 2010.