Carl Hunstein

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Carl Hunstein (* 1843 in Homberg ; † March 13, 1888 in Neupommern ) was a German colonial official, ornithologist and plant collector .

Carl Hunstein emigrated to America and traveled to New Zealand via San Francisco . From 1885 until his death he worked for the New Guinea company . Hunstein discovered several bird of paradise species , including the narrow-tailed sickle hop (Epimachus meyeri) named after the German natural scientist Adolf Bernhard Meyer , the Stephanie magpie (Astrapia stephaniae) , the blue bird of paradise (Paradisaea rudolphi) and the emperor's bird of paradise (Paradisaea guilielmi) .

On April 5 and 6, 1886, Hunstein was a member of an expedition led by Eduard Dallmann to explore the Sepik . On a trip with a launch about 76 km upstream, the participants of the expedition explored the possibility of navigating the river with steamboats . From July 29 to August 10, 1886, Carl Hunstein took part in an economic, geographic and botanical research trip on the Sepik with the steamship Ottilie , which was led by the governor of the New Guinea Company, Georg von Schleinitz . The journey, in which the botanist Max Hollrung and the astronomer Carl Schrader were also involved, led 650 km upstream almost to the Hunstein Mountains. Hunstein, Hollrung and the geologist Carl Schneider repeated the voyage under the direction of Carl Schrader from July to November 1887 with the steamer Samoa and were able to travel about 800 km up the river on this journey. Carl Hunstein in 1888 with Paul von Below, a former coffee farmer from Celebes , by the eruption of the volcano on Ritter Island resulting tsunami killed at the southern tip of New Britain.

In his honor were the Hunstein Mountains and Mount Hunstein (Hunsteinspitze) in Papua New Guinea and a number of native plants and animals there, including the family of finches belonging Hunstein's Mannikin (Lonchura hunsteini) and the tree fern Cyathea hunsteiniana named.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ John E. Braggins, Mark F. Large: Tree Ferns . Timber Press, Portland, Oregon 2004, ISBN 0-88192-630-2
  2. ^ Letters, Extracts, Notices. Ibis. Journal of the British Ornithologists' Union (June 28, 2008) Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 262-272
  3. ↑ Silke Olig: signs on the Sepik. The New Guinea collection of naval officer Joseph Hartl from 1912 to 1913 in the State Museum for Ethnology in Munich as a semiotic object of investigation. Dissertation, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich 2006.
  4. ^ Hans-Jürgen Ohff: Disastrous ventures: German and British enterprises in East New Guinea up to 1914. 496 S., Melbourne, Vic, Plenum Publisher 2015 ISBN 978-0-9943045-3-7
  5. ↑ H. Klee (Ed.): Volcanic eruption in the protected areas of New Guinea. Latest communications , 7th year, No. 49, Berlin 1888.
  6. ^ Heinrich Schnee (Ed.): Hunsteinberg, Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon 1920 Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1920. Volume 2, p. 84
  7. ^ IUCN Red List 2008, BirdLife International, Mottled Munia Lonchura hunsteini
  8. ↑ International Plant Names Index (IPNI) Cyathea hunsteiniana Brause
personal data
SURNAME Hunstein, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ornithologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Homberg
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1888
Place of death New Pomerania (today: New Britain , Papua New Guinea )