Born: 13 April 1868, Germany
Died: 25 November 1929
Country most active: Brazil
Also known as: NA
The following is excerpted from “400 Outstanding Women of the World and the Costumology of Their Time” by Minna Moscherosch Schmidt, published in 1933.
Dr. Emilie Snethlage was born in Germany. Kratz is the name of the modest Westfalian town where she entered into this world, she ended her eventful career at Porto Velho (Amazonia, Brazil). This woman has been called by the Brazilian academicians “one of the most remarkable scientists.” Emilie Snethlage dedicated all of her life to the study of Brazilian birds and to ethnological researches in the same country. In 1907 she became director of the Zoological section of the museum and of the Zoological garden. She traveled a great deal, by foot, canoe and horseback to collect zoological objects. She wrote many essays, which have been published in many languages in bulletins, official reports and scientific reviews. Even during the war in 1915, the British Ornithologists Union conferred on her the dignity of an honorary member; she was also an honorary member of the Berlin Geographical Society and of the Academy of Sciences of Brazil. Everyone in the museum and all who knew her, admired her qualities of character and intelligence; it was only an expression of thought and feeling common to all of them, when the director of the museum, Dr. Roquette Pinto, said: “The scientific world suffered a heavy loss and most of all, we in the museum, where she had in every colleague a respectful friend.”