Christian Ludwig Landbeck

Christian Ludwig Landbeck (born December 11, 1807 in Ostheim ( Alsace ), † September 3, 1890 in Santiago de Chile ) was a German-Chilean ornithologist .

Life

Christian Ludwig Landbeck was born the son of a pastor in Ostheim in Alsace. At the age of seven he moved to Mössingen at the foot of the central Swabian Alb in what is now the Tübingen district . After he had finished studying camera science in Tübingen without an exam, he worked as a rent clerk in Steinegg . In 1839 he became head of the scientific educational institute at the Salon near Ludwigsburg, which was run by the Paulus brothers. From 1845 to his emigration to Chile in 1852 he was estate manager in Klingenbad near Burgau in Bavaria. In Chile, too, he initially worked unsuccessfully as an estate manager at Valdivia , until Rudolph Amandus Philippi got him a job as curator and second director of the Natural History Museum in Santiago de Chile. Between 1860 and 1868 he went on numerous zoological excursions with Philippi, during which they were able to detect taxa such as the Peruvian tern , the red-forehead coot , the thick-billed siskin , the horned finch and the island spiky-tailed panther for the first time.

In addition to his work as a naturalist, Landbeck made a name for himself as a bird illustrator and author of ornithological articles. His first publication was the Systematic Enumeration of Birds in Württemberg from 1834. In 1846 the Systematic Directory of Birds in Württemberg appeared , in which he described 307 species as resident birds , breeding birds , barnacles or stray visitors . Landbeck wrote further works on the avifauna of Württemberg for the book series Das Buch der Welt: Ein Concept desworthiness (1843, 1850) and for the magazine Der Zoologischer Garten (editor: Friedrich Carl Noll ). During a five-month trip in 1838 he described the bird life of Transylvania and the Danube lowlands . Articles such as Die Heron-Insel bey Adony in Hungary and Die Vögel Syrmiens were published in the encyclopedic journal Isis by Lorenz Oken . A number of records, collections and illustrations that Landbeck had sold to Baron Johann Wilhelm von Müller were lost.

Taxa named after Landbeck

Philippi named some insect and plant taxa after Landbeck, including Cereus aethiops var. Landbeckii , Calceolaria landbeckii , Gnaphalium landbeckii , Allidiostoma landbecki and Bombylius landbecki .

literature

• Ludwig Gebhardt: The ornithologists of Central Europe . Aula-Verlag, Wiebelsheim 2006, ISBN 3-89104-680-4
• Walther Bacmeister : Christian Ludwig Landbeck: Farmer u. Naturforscher 1807–1890 , State Museum for Natural History, Stuttgart, 1950