Claudia Bernadine Elisabeth Hartert

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Claudia Bernadine Elisabeth Hartert , b. Endris or Endriss (born June 21, 1863 in Coesfeld , † August 24, 1958 in Hilversum ), was a German - British ornithologist and animal illustrator.

Live and act

Claudia Hartert's father was Lieutenant Colonel Joachim Endris (or Endriss), her mother's name was Alwine Florentine Sophie, geb. Böcker (Boecker). Claudia Hartert had an older brother named Gustav Joachim (* 1862). In July 1891 she married the ornithologist Ernst Hartert in Frankfurt am Main , with whom she had a son named son Joachim Karl (Charles) (1893–1916) and who fell as an English soldier young on the Somme .

Together with her husband, she was the first to describe the blue-tailed buffon hummingbird subspecies ( Chalybura buffonii intermedia Hartert, E & Hartert, C , 1894). The article On a collection of Humming Birds from Ecuador and Mexico appears to be their only joint publication. Alone she published in Feathered World All Sorts of Observations during a trip to the West Indies .

On May 4, 1892, she and her husband set out from Le Havre on a trip to the West Indies . On May 19, they reached Saint Thomas , where they saw their first hummingbird, the bluestar Antilles hummingbird. The next day they went to Puerto Rico , where they visited San Juan . Other stops for collecting were Ponce and Mayagüez . Next she went to Venezuela, which one had to leave after seven days due to the swelling civil war. On June 7th, Curaçao with the port of Willemstad was the next destination of their trip. They accepted an invitation from the owner of the Savonet plantation at the foot of the Sint-Christoffelberg to collect in this area. They reached Aruba on June 21st on a small sailing ship . After ten days on the island, we continued via Curaçao to Bonaire , an island where they anchored on July 9th. They returned to Curacao on July 27th. With the support of the Dutch governor Harry Barge (1844-1919), they were allowed to spend the night in a larger building on the south side of the island. After five days they went back to Willemstad and they left the island on August 9th to moor off La Guaira . The conditions in Venezuela had deteriorated further and so they set off again for Puerto Rico. Here they anchored in Ponce for two days. The next destination was Sánchez in the Dominican Republic , a port where the steamer anchored for two days. Once again via Saint Thomas, they finally returned to Europe.

In October 1882 the Hartert couple moved to Tring to work for Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild , at the Natural History Museum at Tring .

Claudia Hartert was an excellent draftsman, and so she provided 493 text illustrations for A practical handbook of British birds . In the foreword to the second volume, Henry Forbes Witherby wrote :

“I have also to acknowledge my gratidude to Mrs. Hartert for the care and trouble she has taken over the text figures, almost all of which have been drawn by her from specimens in the Tring Museum, and to Mr. H. Grönvold for the interest he has taken in making his drawings for the plates accurate in detail, which was so essential for their purpose. "

Some of the drawings were adopted in The Handbook of British Birds , published in 1952 . Presumably she also contributed drawings from her husband for The Birds of the Palearctic Fauna . She managed the library of the museum in Tring for at least a few years .

After moving to Berlin in 1930, Claudia Hartert retained her English citizenship. Presumably with the help of Phyllis Barclay-Smith , she moved her residence to the St. Willebrodus retirement home in Wassenaar in 1939 due to political difficulties . On August 21, 1940, she moved to the St. Carolus retirement home in Hilversum, where she died in 1958.

Dedication names

John David Digues La Touche named the Claudialaubsänger ( Phylloscopus claudiae ( La Touche , 1922)) after Mrs. Hartert in 1922.

Heliangelus claudia Hartert, E , 1895 is now considered a synonym for the Longuemare sun nymph ( Heliangelus clarisse ( Longuemare , 1841)). The genus Claudia Hartert, E , 1896 is now a synonym for Tachornis Gosse , 1847. Hartert himself corrected the name in 1916 after reference by Charles Chubb (1851-1924) and Tom Iredale (1880-1972) with Reinarda , since the name Claudia Stål , Was already pre-assigned in 1865.

Publications (selection)

  • All sorts of observations during a trip to the West Indies . In: The Feathered World . tape 12 , no. 8 , February 23, 1893, p. 71-72 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • All sorts of observations during a trip to the West Indies . In: The Feathered World . tape 12 , no. 9 , March 2, 1893, p. 81-82 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • All sorts of observations during a trip to the West Indies . In: The Feathered World . tape 12 , no. 10 , March 9, 1893, p. 91-95 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Ernst Hartert, Claudia Bernadine Elisabeth Hartert: On a collection of Humming Birds from Ecuador and Mexico . In: Novitates zoologicae: A journal of zoology in connection with the Tring Museum. tape 1 , 1894, p. 43-64 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).

literature

  • Ernst Hartert: Various notes on Humming-birds . In: Novitates zoologicae: A journal of zoology in connection with the Tring Museum . tape 4 , no. 4 , 1895, p. 529-533 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Ernst Hartert: Coraciae, of the Families Cypselidae, Caprimulgidae, Podargidae abs Steatornithidae in Catalog of the Picariae in the collection of the British Museum . tape 16 . Order of the Trustees, London 1892, p. 434-654 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Ernst Hartert: Dr. Hartert also sent the following note . In: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club . tape 36 , no. 210 , 1916, pp. 7 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Herbert Ringleben: Ernst Hartert - A memory . In: Journal of Ornithology . tape 125 , 1984, pp. 81-88 , doi : 10.1007 / BF01652941 .
  • Carl Stål: Hemiptera Africana . tape 1 . Ex Officina Norstedtiana, Stockholm 1864 ( biodiversitylibrary.org - 1865).
  • Erwin Stresemann: The development of ornithology. From Aristotle to the present . Aula-Verlag, Wiesbaden 1996, ISBN 3-89104-588-3 .
  • John David Digues La Touche: Mr. JD La Touche sent the following descriptions of new forms of Chinese birds for publication . In: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club . tape 43 , no. 271 , 1922, pp. 20-23 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Henry Forbes Witherby, Ernst Hartert, Anne Constance Jackson, Francis Charles Robert Jourdain, Charles Oldham, Norman Frederic Ticehurst: A practical handbook of British birds . tape 2 . HF & G. Witherby, London 1924 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erwin Stresemann (1996), pp. 249-270, p. 258.
  2. ↑ Ernst Hartert u. a. (1894), p. 44.
  3. ↑ Claudia Hartert: All kinds of observations during a trip to the West Indies.
  4. ↑ a b c d Herbert Ringleben (1984), p. 83.
  5. ^ Henry Forbes Witherby (1924), SV
  6. ↑ John David Digues La Touche (1922), p 22
  7. ↑ Ernst Hartert (1895), p. 484
  8. ↑ Ernst Hartert (1895), p. 469
  9. ↑ Carl Stål (1865), p. 74

Remarks

  1. ^ In the Coesfeld local family book you can find her as Claudine Bernardine Elisabeth Endriss. In her death entry as Claudia Bernardine Elisabeth Endris .
personal data
SURNAME Hartert, Claudia Bernadine Elisabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hartert, Claudia; Endris, Claudia; Endriss, Claudine Bernardine Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ornithologist and animal illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Coesfeld
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1958
Place of death Hilversum