"katharina schmidt loske"

Katharina Schmidt-Loske studied biology in Münster, Bonn, and Frankfurt am Main, with a focus on insects and reptiles, and has worked as a book illustrator. She earned her doctorate at the University of Bonn with a dissertation entitled Die Tierwelt der Maria Sibylla Merian (The Fauna of Maria Sibylla Merian), published in 2007. In 2008 she was appointed director of the Biohistoricum at the Museum Koenig, Bonn.