Hans Friedrich Gadow

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Hans Friedrich Gadow (born March 8, 1855 in Alt Krakow , Schlawe district , † May 16, 1928 in Cambridge , England) was a German zoologist .

Gadow attended school in Frankfurt an der Oder and studied in Berlin , Jena and Heidelberg and obtained his doctorate in Jena under Ernst Haeckel , whose work “About our current knowledge of the origin of man” he translated into English ( “The last link: our present knowledge of the descent of man " ). In 1880 Gadow was appointed to the Natural History Museum in London , where he worked on cataloging the birds there.

1884 Gadow was to succeed Osbert Salvin (1835-1898) Curator of Collections Stricklandian the University of Cambridge , where he simultaneously Lecturer and later Reader in the Department of " morphology of vertebrates was." In 1881 he became a member of the British Ornithologists' Union , and in 1892 he was elected as a member (" Fellow ") in the Royal Society .

Gadow has published a number of important works on the anatomy and systematics of vertebrates and especially birds.

Gadow married Clara Maud, one of the daughters of the English doctor George Edward Paget (1809-1892).

Fonts

  • On the classification of birds (1892)
  • Together with Ernst Haeckel : The last link: our present knowledge of the descent of man (1898)
  • Together with Heinrich Georg Bronn : The classes and orders of the animal kingdom
  • Together with Alfred Newton (1829–1907): A Dictionary of Birds (1893–1896)
  • In Northern Spain (1897)
  • A Classification of Vertebrata, Recent and Extinct (1898)
  • Together with Richard Sharpe : Catalog of Birds in the British Museum
  • Passeriformes (2 volumes)
  • Through Southern Mexico (1908)
  • The Wanderings of Animals (1913)
  • posthumously (1933), with JF Gaskell and HL Green : The Evolution of the Vertebral Column: a Contribution to the Study of Vertebrate Phylogeny

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ entry on Gadow; Hans Friedrich (1855-1928) in the Archives of the Royal Society , London
personal data
SURNAME Gadow, Hans Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Old Krakow , district of Schlawe
DATE OF DEATH May 16, 1928
Place of death Cambridge , England