Ernst Hartert

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Ernst Hartert
Grave of Ernst Hartert in the Dahlem forest cemetery in Berlin

Ernst Johann Otto Hartert (born October 29, 1859 in Hamburg , † November 11, 1933 in Berlin ) was a German ornithologist .

Life

From 1889 to 1891, Hartert was responsible for reorganizing the more than 10,000 bird hides in the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt. From 1892 to 1929 he was employed as a bird curator at the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum in Tring . A decade-long friendship linked him - despite the two different species concepts - with the animal systematist Otto Kleinschmidt . It only ended with Hartert's death. 1889 to 1891 reorganization of the more than 10,000 mounted birds in the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt.

Hartert published the museum magazine Novitates Zoologicae with Lionel Walter Rothschild , which appeared between 1894 and 1939. He was the author of The Birds of the Palearctic Fauna (1903-1922). He also wrote with Francis Charles Robert Jourdain , Norman Frederic Ticehurst (1873-1960) and Henry Witherby (1873-1943) the work List of British Birds (1912).

Hartert described numerous bird species scientifically for the first time, including the bristle raven ( Corvus rhipidurus ), the Amami woodcock ( Scolopax mira ), the mountain buzzard ( Buteo oreophilus ) and the giant salangan ( Hydrochous gigas ).

On behalf of Lord Rothschild, he traveled to India, Africa and South America. In 1930 Hartert returned to Berlin, where he died in 1933. Shortly before his death he became honorary chairman of the German Ornithological Society . He was the last ornithologist with a universal knowledge of the avifauna of all continents.

In 1891 married Hartert in on June 21, 1863 Coesfeld born Claudine Bernardine Elisabeth born End crack. With her he had a son Joachim Karl (1893-1916), who died as an English soldier on the Somme . Together with her he published some new species and subspecies in 1894. The widow died on August 24, 1958 in Hilversum .

Dedication names

Erwin Stresemann named the genus Hartertula after him in 1925 . The Hartertelfe ( Acestrura harterti ( Simon , 1901) syn .: Chaetocercus harterti , possibly hybrid origin), the Hartertfrogmouth ( Batrachostomus harterti Sharpe , 1892), the Hartert's bow wing ( Camaroptera harterti von Zedlitz , 1911), the pale-bellied earth chopper ( Tarphonomus hartonomus ( from Berlepsch , 1892)), the Hartertkolibri ( Phlogophilus harterti of Berlepsch & Stolzmann , 1901), Whip thistle tail ( Asthenes harterti of Berlepsch , 1901), the Banggaibülbül ( Thapsinillas harterti ( Stresemannplatz , 1912)), the Hartertbreitrachen ( Eurylaimus harterti van Oort , 1909) and the Hartertgrund snapper ( Ficedula harterti ( Siebers , 1928)) are named after him.

He also was honored in the following subtypes: Stentorrohrsänger ( Acrocephalus stentoreus harterti Salomonsen , 1928), Skylark ( Alauda arvensis harterti Whitaker , 1904), Krause Monarch ( Asses telescopthalmus harterti van Oort , 1909), stone curlew ( Burhinus oedicnemus harterti Vaurie , 1963), Buzzard ( Buteo buteo harterti Swann , 1919), Bald Wren ( Campylorhynchus albobrunneus harterti ( of Berlepsch , 1907)), Papua reed Steiger ( Cincloramphus macrurus harterti ( Mayr , 1931)), Bronzekuckuck ( Chalcites lucidus harterti ( Mayr , 1932)), harrier ( Circus aeruginosus harterti ( of Zedlitz , 1914)), Brauntinamu ( Crypturellus soui harterti ( Brabourne & Chubb , 1914)), Buntspecht ( Dendrocopos major harterti ( Arrigoni degli Oddi , 1892)), Königsdrongo ( Dicrurus macrocercus harterti Baker, ECS , 1918) .

Fonts (selection)

In addition to numerous articles in the museum magazine Novitates Zoologicae , Hartert was involved in the following books, among others:

  • 1891: Catalog of the bird collection in the museum of the Senckenberg Natural Research Society in Frankfurt am Main
  • with 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 ).
  • 1897: Podargidae, Caprimulgidae and Macropterygidae
  • 1897: The animal kingdom
  • 1900: Trochilidae
  • 1902: From the wandering years of a naturalist: travels and research in Africa, Asia and America, in addition to related, mostly ornithological studies
  • 1903: About the Pipriden genus Masius Bp.
  • 1910–1922: The birds of the Palearctic fauna: systematic overview of the birds found in Europe, North Asia and the Mediterranean region . Three volumes
  • 1920: The birds of Europe

literature

  • Carlo Ettore Arrigoni degli Oddi: Note sopra alcune nuove sottospecie osservate negli Uccelli di Sardegna . In: Avicula: giornale ornitologico italiano. tape 6 , 1902, pp. 102-105 .
  • Edward Charles Stuart Baker: Some notes on the Dicruridae . In: Novitates zoologicae: a journal of zoology in connection with the Tring Museum. tape 25 , no. 1 , 1918, p. 291-304 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Hans Hermann Carl Ludwig von Berlepsch: New South American bird species in report on the XVII. Annual meeting held in Berlin co 1.-4. October 1892 . In: Journal for Ornithology (=  4 ). tape 40 , no. 4 , 1892, p. 451-456 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Hans Hermann Carl Ludwig von Berlepsch, Jan Sztolcman: Description de trois Espèces nouveles d'Oiseaux du Pérou du Muséum Branicki . In: The Ibis (=  8 ). tape 1 , no. 4 , 1901, pp. 715-719 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Hans Hermann Carl Ludwig von Berlepsch: Information about the birds collected by the brothers G. and O. Garlepp in Bolivia and descriptions of new species . In: Journal for Ornithology (=  5 ). tape 49 , no. 1 , 1901, p. 81-99 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Hans Hermann Carl Ludwig von Berlepsch: Descriptions of new species and conspecies of Neotropical Birds . In: Ornis . tape 14 , no. 1 , 1907, p. 347-371 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • William Knatchbull-Hugessen, 3rd Baron Brabourne, Charles Chubb: Key to the species of the genus Crypturus, with descriptions of some new forms . In: The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology being a continuation of the Annals combined with Loudon and Charlesworth's Magazine of Natural History (=  8 ). tape 14 , no. 82 , 1914, pp. 319-322 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Hans Kelm: Otto Kleinschmidt and Ernst Hartert. From their correspondence 1895-1932 . In: Journal of Ornithology . tape 101 , no. 4 , 1960, p. 404-471 , doi : 10.1007 / BF01671229 .
  • Ernst Mayr: The birds of the Saruwaged and Herzog Mountains (NE New Guinea) . In: Messages from the Zoological Museum in Berlin . tape 17 , no. 5 , 1931, pp. 639-723 .
  • Ernst Mayr: Birds collected during the Whitney South Sea Expedition. 19, Notes on the bronze cuckoo Chalcites lucidus and its subspecies . In: American Museum Novitates . No. 520 , 1932, pp. 1–9 ( digitallibrary.amnh.org [PDF; 846 kB ]).
  • Eduard Daniël van Oort: On Gerygone and Eurylaimus species from Java and from Sumatra . In: Notes from the Leyden Museum . tape 31 , 1909, pp. 207-210 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Eduard Daniël van Oort in Hendrik Antoon Lorentz : Birds from southwestern and southern New Guinea in Nova Guinea: résultats de l'expédition scientifique néerlandaise à la Nouvelle-Guinée en 1907net 1909 sus les auspicies de Dr. HA Lorentz . tape 9 . EJ Brill, Leiden 1909, p. 51-107 ( biodiversitylibrary.org - 1909-1914).
  • Finn Solomon Islands: Two new Acrocephalus forms from the Indo-Malay region . In: Ornithological monthly reports . tape 36 , 1928, pp. 119-120 ( books.google.de ).
  • Richard Bowdler Sharpe: Description of new Species of Birds discovered by Mr. C. Hose on Mount Dulit in NW Borneo . In: The Ibis (=  6 ). tape 4 , no. 14 , 1892, p. 322-324 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Hendrik Cornelis Siebers: Neve Vogel from Sumba . In: Treubia . tape 10 , no. 2-3 , 1928, pp. 399-404 ( e-journal.biologi.lipi.go.id ).
  • Eugène Simon: De trois espèces nouvelles de la famille de Trochilidae . In: Ornis - Journal of the International Ornithological Committee. tape 11 , 1901, pp. 201–203 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
  • Erwin Stresemann: Ornithological miscells from the Indo-Australian region . In: Novitates zoologicae: a journal of zoology in connection with the Tring Museum. tape 19 , no. 2 , 1912, pp. 311-351 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Erwin Stresemann: Hartertula nov. genus Timeliidarum . In: Ornithological monthly reports . tape 33 , 1925, pp. 186 ( books.google.de ).
  • Erwin Stresemann: Festschrift dedicated to Ernst Hartert on the occasion of his seventieth birthday . 1929
  • Erwin Stresemann:  Hartert, Ernst Johann Otto. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 711 ( digitized version ).
  • Erwin Stresemann: The development of ornithology. From Aristotle to the present . Aula-Verlag, Wiesbaden 1996, ISBN 3-89104-588-3 .
  • Harry Kirke Swann: A synopsis of the Accipitres (Diurnal Birds of Prey): Comprising Species and Subspecies described up to 1920 with their Characters and Distribution . 2nd Edition. Privately Printed for the Author, London 1919 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Charles Vaurie: Systematic notes on Palearctic birds . In: American Museum Novitates . No. 2131 , 1963, pp. 1–13 ( digitallibrary.amnh.org [PDF; 1.1 MB ]).
  • Joseph Whitaker: Mr. JIS Whitaker exhibited a new subspecies of Skylark (Alauda arvensis harterti), and made the following remarks . In: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club . tape 15 , no. 110 , 1904, pp. 19-20 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Ornithological travel pictures from Northern Algeria . In: Journal of Ornithology . tape 62 , no. 1 , October 1914, p. 110-134 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Otto Eduard Graf von Zedlitz and Trützschler: Revision of the genus Camaroptera . In: Journal of Ornithology . tape 59 , no. 2 , 1911, p. 328-345 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).

Web links

Commons : Ernst Hartert  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Franz Robiller: Das große Lexikon der Vogelpflege / 1. A - K. 2. Ed. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart (Hohenheim) 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3195-1 , p. 377 .
  2. ↑ Franz Robiller: Das große Lexikon der Vogelpflege / 1. A - K. 2. Ed. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart (Hohenheim) 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3195-1 , p. 377 .
  3. ^ Claudine Bernardine Elisabeth Endriss
  4. ↑ Erwin Stresemann (1996), pp. 249-270, p. 258.
  5. ^ Claudia Bernardine Elisabeth Endris
  6. ↑ Erwin Stresemann (1925), p. 186.
  7. ↑ Eugène Simon (1901), pp. 202-203.
  8. ^ Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1892), p. 323.
  9. ^ Otto Eduard Graf von Zedlitz and Trützschler (1911), p. 342.
  10. ^ Hans Hermann Carl Ludwig von Berlepsch (1892), p. 452.
  11. ^ Hans Hermann Carl Ludwig von Berlepsch a. a. (1901), p. 717.
  12. ^ Hans Hermann Carl Ludwig von Berlepsch (1901), p. 91.
  13. ↑ Erwin Stresemann (1912), p. 344.
  14. ^ Eduard Daniël van Oort (1909), p. 209.
  15. ↑ Hendrik Cornelis Siebers (1928), p. 402.
  16. ↑ Finn Salomonsen (1911), p. 119.
  17. ^ Joseph Whitaker (1904), p. 20.
  18. ^ Eduard Daniël van Oort (1909–1914), p. 86.
  19. ^ Charles Vaurie (1963), p. 2.
  20. ↑ Harry Kirke Swann (1919), p. 71.
  21. ^ Hans Hermann Carl Ludwig von Berlepsch (1907), p. 347.
  22. ↑ Ernst Mayr (1931), p. 686.
  23. ↑ Ernst Mayr (1932), p. 8.
  24. ^ Otto Eduard Graf von Zedlitz and Trützschler (1914), p. 133.
  25. ^ William Knatchbull-Hugessen, 3rd Baron Brabourne a. a. (1914), pp. 318, 321.
  26. ^ Carlo Ettore Arrigoni degli Oddi (1902), p. 103.
  27. ^ Edward Charles Stuart Baker (1918), p. 299.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Your birth name can also be found in the literature under as Endris , Endres or completely incorrectly as Reinard in the literature.
personal data
SURNAME Hartert, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hartert, Ernst Johann Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ornithologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 1933
Place of death Berlin