Famous People with Name Hennig

Emil Hans Willi Hennig            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Emil Hans Willi Hennig: was a German biologist who is considered the founder of phylogenetic systematics, also known as cladistics. With his works on evolution and systematics he revolutionised the view of the natural order of beings. As a taxonomist, he specialised in dipterans (ordinary flies and mosquitoes).As of 1927, Willi Hennig continued his education at the Realgymnasium and boarding school in Klotzsche near Dresden. Here he met his first mentor M. Rost.[1] Rost had an interest in insects and introduced Hennig to Wilhelm Meise, who worked as a scientist at the Dresdener Museum für Tierkunde (Zoological Museum Dresden). In 1930, Hennig skipped a year, and graduated on February 26, 1932. As early as 1931, Willi Hennig composed an essay entitled Die Stellung der Systematik in der Zoologie ("The state of systematics in zoology") as part of his school work

Carsten Hennig            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Carsten Hennig: is a German football player. As of January 2009, he plays for SV Wehen Wiesbaden II. He made his debut on the professional league level in the 2. Bundesliga for Eintracht Frankfurt on September 22, 1996 when he started in a game against Stuttgarter Kicker

Heinz Hennig            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Heinz Hennig: was a German choral conductor and an academic, known for founding the Knabenchor Hannover in 1950 and leading it until 2001.[1] In 1950 he founded the Knabenchor Hannover. In 1961 he cofounded the youth orchestra "Junges Sinfonieorchester Hannover" (JSO).[2] He prepared the boys choir for the recording of Bach cantatas in a collaboration with Gustav Leonhardt, published as "Das Kantatenwerk" by Teldec. Hennig belonged to the first conductors pursuing historically informed performance and revived neglected works of Heinrich Schütz and Andreas Hammerschmidt, among others. He conducted the choir in five Schütz recordings between 1982 and 1999, four of them won prizes such as the Deutscher Schallplattenpreis.[3] He also premiered works of composers such as Alfred Koerppen, who wrote in 1951 a youth opera Virgilius, der Magier von Rom that the choir performed successfully at the "Sängerfest" in Frankfurt.[4]