Burkhard Stephan

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Burkhard Stephan (born March 4, 1932 in Sebnitz ) is a German ornithologist .

Life

After completing his commercial training, Stephan completed a degree in biology at the Humboldt University in Berlin , where he received his doctorate in natural sciences (Dr. sc. Nat.) In 1964 with the dissertation Comparative investigations on the extremities of cuckoo birds <Cuculi, Aves> . In 1959 he became an employee and in 1968 a curator at the ornithological department of the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin . From 1972 to 1977 he was deputy director of the Institute for Systematic Zoology at the Museum für Naturkunde and from 1978 to 1982 he was deputy director of the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin. In 1988 he taught as an associate professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin. From 1994 until his retirement in 1997 he was head of the ornithological department of the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin.

Stephan's fields of work include functional morphology (in particular osteology and spring science), the evolution and tribal history of birds, ancient bird research and avifaunistics . Stephan published several non-fiction books, over 240 scientific and popular scientific articles and over 60 translations.

In 1971, together with his colleague Karlheinz Fischer, he described the extinct bird species Grus cubensis , Nesotrochis picapicensis and Dolichonyx kruegeri from the Lower Pleistocene deposits of the Pío Domingo Cave in Cuba .

Fonts (selection)

  • Birch, deer and swallowtail , 1971 (German translation of the Russian original Кто в лесу живет? Что в лесу растет? By Yuri Dmitrijew from 1965)
  • Biber, Schwan und Wasserfloh , 1971 (German translation of the Russian original В воде и у воды by Nikolai Ossipow from 1965)
  • Protected and huntable birds , 1973
  • Primeval birds: Archeopterygiformes (= Die neue Brehm-Bücherei. Volume 465), 1974
  • We Identify Animals , 1975
  • The evolution of social structures , 1977
  • Birds and Mammals from Around the World , 1984
  • The blackbird: Turdus merula , 1985
  • Animals from all over the world , 1985
  • The birds of Syria: an overview , 1995 (with Wolfgang Baumgart and Max Kasparek)

literature

  • Dr. Burkhard Stephan - for his 65th birthday. Messages from the Zoological Museum in Berlin. Supplement, Annalen für Ornithologie No. 21, 1997, pp. 3-15
  • Gerhard Lüdtke, Hans Strodel, Hans Jaeger: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar Volume III: Sci – Z, KG Saur Verlag, Munich, 2001, p. 3167

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karlheinz Fischer & Burkhard Stephan: A flightless crane (Grus cubensis n. Sp.) From the Pleistozan of Cuba - an osteology of the crane family (Gruidae). Scientific journal of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe, Vol. 20, 1971, pp. 541-592
  2. ↑ a b Karlheinz Fischer & Burkhard Stephan: Further bird remains from the Pleistocene of the Pio Domingo Cave in Cuba. Scientific journal of the Humboldt University of Berlin, Mathematical-Natural Science Series, Vol. 20, 1971, pp. 593–607
personal data
SURNAME Stephan, Burkhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ornithologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Sebnitz