Adolph Nehrkorn

Adolph Nehrkorn

Adolph Nehrkorn (born December 29, 1841 in Riddagshausen , † April 8, 1916 in Braunschweig ) was a German ornithologist and oologist .

Life

After Nehrkorn had worked as a farmer for several years, he studied natural sciences in Berlin. In 1866, as ducal councilor, he became the tenant of the Riddagshausen domain, which his father had already managed. In the nature reserve Riddagshausen Teiche , which is rich in water birds , Nehrkorn was fascinated by bird watching even as a child. Adolph Nehrkorn's contacts with Rudolf Blasius and Wilhelm Blasius led him to his main research area, oology. By trading, buying and traveling on his own, Nehrkorn assembled the world's largest collection of birds' eggs from the late 19th century, measured by species. It comprised 5843 species from all over the world and exceeded the British Museum's bird egg collection by almost 1500 species. In later years Nehrkorn collected bird hides . This bird collection, which consists of 5000 pieces of around 4000 species, is located in the Natural History Museum Braunschweig together with eggs from 3500 bird species . A collection of 20,000 bird eggs that Nehrkorn bequeathed to the Berlin Museum in 1905 was completely destroyed during a bombing raid on the museum during World War II. In 1868 Nehrkorn became a member of the German Ornithological Society . Nehrkorn wrote several oological articles for the Ornithological Centralblatt , the Ornithological Monthly Reports and the Journal for Ornithology , including “Mittheilungen über Nester und Eier des Museum Godeffroy zu Hamburg ”, which was published in 1879. In 1899 and 1910 he published a catalog of his egg collections.

Nehrkorn was a member of the Freemason Lodge Carl zum Crowned Pillar in Braunschweig.

Dedication names

Some Vogeltaxa carry Nehrkorns names in kind epithet , including the Sangihe White-eye ( Zosterops nehrkorni ), the Nehrkorn-Mistelfresser ( Dicaeum nehrkorni ) Hyliota violacea nehrkorni (subspecies of Violettmantelhyliota ) Parus semilarvatus nehrkorni (subspecies of the White-fronted Tit ) Neolesbia nehrkorni (hybrids between celestial sylph and purple short-billed hummingbird ) and Coracina tenuirostris nehrkorni (subspecies of the monk's caterpillar ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Adolph Nehrkorn: Catalog of the egg collection. In addition to descriptions of the eggs outside of Europe. Bruhn, Braunschweig 1899 (2nd edition. R. Friedländer and Son, Berlin 1910).
2. ^ Adolph Nehrkorn: Communications about nests and eggs of the Godeffroy Museum in Hamburg. In: Journal of Ornithology. 27, No. 4, 1879, ISSN  0021-8375 , pp. 393-410.

literature

• Ludwig Gebhardt: The ornithologists of Central Europe. AULA-Verlag, Wiebelsheim 2006, ISBN 3-89104-680-4 .