Erwin Patzelt

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Erwin Patzelt (born April 28, 1924 in Tschermna , Czechoslovakia ) is a German expert on botany , zoology and ethnology in Ecuador .

Erwin Patzelt, surrounded by "his" bromeliads, when he was awarded his honorary doctorate in 2006
The pineapple plant Werauhia patzeltii named after Erwin Patzelt , here from the Botanical Garden of the University of Kiel

His life's work is the description of the fauna and flora of Ecuador as well as the poverty, lifestyle and social behavior of the people living there, especially of Indian descent. He paid particular attention to the Waorani , who at that time still lived as a largely isolated people in the rainforest of Ecuador.

Live and act

Erwin Patzelt was born on April 28, 1924 in Tschermna near Arnau in the Hohenelbe district, where his parents had a farm job. In Trautenau he passed the Abitur and passed the exams at the teacher training institute here. He then worked as a teacher at the four-class school in his home village of Tschermna. After returning from the war he became head of the one-class school in Brenkenhagen near Grömitz, then from 1952 to 1959 a teacher at the middle school in Oldenburg in Holstein with the subjects biology, geography and music. During this activity he studied biology and geography at the University of Kiel.

Then he worked for six years at the German school in Temuco , in the south of Chile, where many German emigrants live. The fauna and flora of this land caught his attention. He began to record his discoveries. In 1965 he returned to Germany for a year, but then accepted the offer to work as a foreign teacher in Quito , the capital of Ecuador . Here he also found his wife.

Scientific commitment

In specialist journals such as B. " Kosmos ", Erwin Patzelt published his findings. He photographed and filmed and became a specialist in textbooks and tourism. One of his books describes the expedition to the people in the rainforest, to the Huaorani tribe in eastern Ecuador.

Erwin Patzelt was involved in the discovery of some animal and plant species that were named after him by their first descriptions :

Awards

Publications

  • with Peter Baumann: The Amazon Jungle Book . Safari near Ullstein, Berlin / Frankfurt am Main / Vienna 1980, ISBN 3-7934-1032-3 .
  • with Peter Baumann: Memories of a headhunter: Moquimbio tells of life, dreams and magic in the Amazon rainforest. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1981, ISBN 3-596-23053-5 .
  • with Peter Baumann: People in the rainforest. Umschau Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1982, ISBN 3-524-66018-5 .
  • with Peter Baumann: Where the mountains are gods: The new image of the Andes. Umschau Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1984, ISBN 3-524-66019-3
  • Flora del Ecuador. Ed. del Banco Central de Ecuador, Quito 1985
  • Fauna del Ecuador. Banco Central del Ecuador; 1st ed edition 1989
  • Last hope rainforest. Steiger, Innsbruck 1992, ISBN 3-85423-109-1
  • Sunken worlds - life in the rainforest in the 60s and 70s , photos by Erwin Patzelt at www.regenwaldmenschen.de

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald Schliemann (1982): Evidence of wild guinea pigs for Ecuador and description of Cavia aperea patzelti subsp. nov. Journal of Mammals 47: 79-90.
  2. ^ Winner of the Culture Prize , Sudetendeutsches Kulturwerk
personal data
SURNAME Patzelt, Erwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biologist and geographer, expert in botany, zoology and ethnology of Ecuador
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Tschermna