Carl Georg Schillings
Carl Georg Schillings (born December 11, 1865 in Düren-Gürzenich , † January 29, 1921 in Berlin ) was a German photographer , big game hunter and animal rights activist .
Life
Between 1896 and 1903, Schillings traveled four times to German East Africa . He not only killed big game , which he u. a. collected for important German natural history museums , but also photographed the living animals for the first time in the wild . He is considered a pioneer of nature conservation and animal photography as well as night photography . In many lectures he conveyed his experiences in Africa to the people in Germany, which he published in 1905 in a volume With Blitzlicht und Büchse on 500 pages with 302 photos, Ludwig Heck wrote the foreword, and Paul attached a list of the mammal species killed or captured by Schillings Matschie and an overview of the bird species collected by Anton Reichenow .
An East African species of tick , Ixodes schillingsi Neumann, was named after him in 1901.
In 1950 the city of Düren bought the estate with a collection of his preparations for animals . It is housed in the Leopold Hoesch Museum in Düren.
His brother Max von Schillings was a composer, conductor and theater director. The Schillingsstrasse was named after both brothers in Düren-Gürzenich.
Fonts (selection)
- With flash and rifle . Leipzig: R. Voigtländer, 1905; DNB 1001107675 . Newly published: Paderborn: Salzwasser Verlag, 2012; ISBN 978-3-86444-482-1
- The magic of Eleléscho . Leipzig: Voigtländer, 1906; Edition 1913 = DNB 364023252 , ( online - Internet Archive )
- Bird extermination for women cleaning . Pamphlet of the Dürerbund , 88; Munich: Callwey, 1911; DNB 364571888
- Lions . Leipzig: R. Voigtländer, 1924; DNB 577408925
- On the elephant track in East Africa . Darmstadt: Winklers Verlag, 1929; DNB 362602883
- The symphony of the steppe and the jungle . Bielefeld: Velhagen & Klasing, 1931; DNB 362602891
literature
- Museumsverein Düren eV of the Leopold Hoesch Museum, Düren; Manfred Becker (Ed.): Bwana Simba - the Lord of the Lions , Düren: Hahne & Schloemer, 2008 ISBN 978-3-927312-88-3
Web links
- Literature by and about Carl Georg Schillings in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by Carl Georg Schillings in the Gutenberg-DE project
- Biography of Carl Georg Schillings with H. Schumacher
- Newspaper article about Carl Georg Schillings in the press kit of the 20th century of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
- Carl Georg Schillings in the Internet Archive (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schillings, Carl Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German photographer, hunter and animal rights activist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 11, 1865 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Düren-Gürzenich |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 29, 1921 |
| Place of death | Berlin |