Christian Cuckoo

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Heinrich Friedrich Kuckuck (born October 23, 1844 in Arnum , † February 12, 1893 in Hanover ) was a German veterinarian and zoologist.

Life

Christian Kuckuck was the son of a royal castle guard in Hanover. In 1861 he was an intern at the Hanover Veterinary School , where he studied veterinary medicine from 1862 to 1865. In 1862 he became a member of the Corps Normannia Hanover .

In 1866 he became a city veterinarian in Osterode am Harz and, after having been stationed on the French border near Trier during the Franco-German War , he became a district veterinarian in Rotenburg (Wümme) in the Landdrostei Stade . After further training as a veterinarian at the Hanover Veterinary School in 1873 , he was appointed director of the Hanover Zoological Garden in February 1874 , which he managed until his death in 1893.

As a veterinarian, Kuckuck was the zoo's first manager with specialist knowledge. Under his leadership, the zoo developed into a social center in Hanover as well as an institution recognized by colleagues. In 1881 the pachyderm house for keeping elephants and hippos was built according to the designs by Otto Wilsdorff . In 1892, a hoofed animal house built according to plans by Theodor Hecht in the style of a Moorish mosque was opened to keep giraffes and antelopes. On August 3, 1890, the zoo experienced an absolute visitor record with 20,000 guests.

literature

  • Fritz Riggert, Otto Gervesmann: History of the Corps Normannia Hannover, 1859 March 15, 1959 , 1959, p. 96

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Catharine E. Bell (Ed.): Encyclopedia of the World's Zoos , 2001, Volume 3, R – Z, p. 1416 ( digitized version )
  2. ↑ Lothar Dittrich: Flaunt alien landi shear animals in the 19th century in Lower Saxony and their import. In: Niedersächsisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte , Volume 76, 2004, pp. 103–113
  3. ↑ The zoo as a subject in non-fiction lessons with special consideration of extracurricular learning ( Memento of May 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), p. 20

Remarks

  1. ↑ In 1875 he was awarded the ribbon of the Corps Franconia Berlin.
personal data
SURNAME Cuckoo, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kuckuck, Heinrich Friedrich Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German veterinarian and zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Arnum
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1893
Place of death Hanover