Hans Englishman

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Hans Engländer (born August 31, 1914 in St. Wendel ; † April 13, 2011 ) was a German ornithologist and book collector .

Engländer studied biology in Freiburg and Munich . He did his doctorate with Karl von Frisch . He also received his doctorate in medicine in 1943 . He then worked as a hospital doctor and was taken prisoner of war . In 1948 he became a scientific assistant at the Zoological Institute of the University of Cologne . He completed his habilitation in 1953 and continued to work as a university lecturer.

After being a prisoner of war, he began building up his collection of ornithological literature. He bought from well-known antiquarians and auction houses around the world. He acquired historical top pieces from the incunable period from this area of ​​scientific literature. By testamentary disposal this important collection in Europe has gone from about 4,000 volumes in the possession of the university and public library Cologne over.

literature

  • H. Engländer, A. Gisela Johnen, W. Vahs (1953): Investigations to clarify the performance specificity of various abnormal inducers in the embryonic development of Urodeles , Experientia Verlag, 15. III. 1953, Volume 9, Issue 3, pp 100/101
  • Hans Engländer, Anna Gisela Johnen, (1960): Investigations on Rhenish bat populations - Bonn zoological bulletin - earlier Bonn zoological contributions. 11_SH: 204-209.
  • Rolf Schlenker: Hans Engländer's ornithological library in the USB Cologne . In: From the second-hand bookshop . NF 11, no. 5 , 2013, p. 229-231 .
  • Wolfgang Schmitz (ed.): Transfer of the Hans Engländer collection on the history of ornithology to the University and City Library of Cologne on April 18, 2012 . University and City Library, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-931596-65-1 ( uni-hamburg.de ).

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personal data
SURNAME Englishman, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ornithologist and book collector
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Wendel
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 2011