Constantin Wilhelm Lambert Gloger

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Gloger around 1860

Constantin Wilhelm Lambert Gloger (born September 17, 1803 in Kasischka, Grottkau Silesia district , † December 30, 1863 in Berlin ) was a German zoologist and ornithologist .

Life

Constantin Gloger was the eldest of seven children of the landowner Franz Gloger (1778-1851) and his wife Johanna geb. Klaar (1776–1838) was born on his father's estate. Educated through private lessons, he attended the Royal High School Carolinum in Neisse from Easter 1813 , where he passed the Abitur in 1821. From 1824 he studied natural sciences in Berlin and Breslau; In 1830 he received his doctorate with the topic “De avibus ab Aristotele commemoratis” (About the bird species mentioned by Aristotle). He began researching the Giant Mountains' bird life while still a student . In 1830 he became a teacher in Breslau and at the same time a member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , which was founded in 1652 and has been based in Halle (Saale) since 1878 . In 1833 he was elected secretary of the zoological department of the Silesian Society for Patriotic Culture . In 1843 he moved from Breslau to Berlin, where he worked for the Berlin Zoological Museum and was the editor of the Journal for Ornithology .

Act

Gloger gained worldwide fame through its 1833 in the magazine The altering of birds through the influence of the climate established Glogersche rule . He also built the first species-appropriate boxes for bats and worked out the structural differences between swallows and common swifts .

Fonts

  • About the mammals living in the high mountains of the Sudetes and the birds that live there during the summer (1827)
  • On the natural history of the white crossbill loxia taenioptera (1829)
  • Silesia vertebrate fauna. A systematic overview of the mammals, birds, amphibians and fish found in this province . (1833) doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.63781
  • The modification of birds by the influence of the climate (1833)
  • Complete Handbook of the Natural History of the Birds of Europe (from 1834)
  • Non-profit manual and auxiliary book of natural history (1841)

literature

personal data
SURNAME Gloger, Constantin Wilhelm Lambert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German zoologist and ornithologist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th September 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH Kasischka, Grottkau district , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1863
Place of death Berlin