Christian Morgenstern
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Christian Otto Josef Wolfgang Morgenstern was a German writer and poet from Munich. Morgenstern married Margareta Gosebruch von Liechtenstern on 7 March 1910. He worked for a while as a journalist in
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Rhinogradentia
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Rhinogradentia is a fictitious order of extinct shrew-like mammals invented by German zoologist Gerolf Steiner. Members of the order, known as rhinogrades or snouters, are characterized by a nose-like
Christian Morgenstern
…humorous poetry is a subtle metaphysical streak, as e.g. in "Vice Versa", (1905): Gerolf Steiner's mock-scientific book about the fictitious animal order Rhinogradentia (1961), inspired by Morgenstern's nonsense poem Das Nasobēm, is testament to his enduring popularity. Morgenstern was a member of the General…
A mock taxidermy of a rhinograde, using its "nasorium" to fish, at the Musée zoologique de la ville de Strasbourg.
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Nasoperforator, a genus "discovered" on April Fools' Day in 2012 by the National Museum of Natural History in France.
Hyorhinomys stuempkei, a real species of shrew rat named for Stümpke