Solomon Herzenstein

Herzenstein received a degree in natural sciences and mathematics from St. Petersburg University and was appointed as the custodian of the Zoological Museum of the Imperial Academy of Science in 1879 or 1880.[1] He also supervised practical training at the University for Women. In 1880, 1884, and 1887, he was commissioned to travel to the Murman Coast of the Kola Peninsula to study the mollusks and fishes there.[2]

His work, "Materialy k Faunye Murmanskavo Berega i Byelavo Morya," which was published in the Trudy of the St. Petersburg Obshchestvo Yestestvoispitatelei in 1885, became a standard reference. He co-wrote Zamyetki po Ikhtologii Basseina Ryeki Amura (1887) and Nauchnye Rezultaty Puteshestvi Przevalskavo (1888–91) with N. L. Varpakhovski. He also wrote Ryby (St. Petersburg, 1888-91), and published "Ichthyologische Bemerkungen" in the Bulletin de l'Académie impériale des sciences de Saint-Pétersbourg (1890-92).

• Gnathopogon herzensteini (Günther, 1896) was probably named in honor of Herzenstein, who named an Acanthogobio after Günther in 1892.[3]
• Asprocottus herzensteini (L. S. Berg, 1906), the Herzenstein's rough sculpin.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rosenthal, Herman; Rosenthal, Max (1904). "Herzenstein, Solomon Markovich". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 6. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 369.