Hans Friedrich Gadow
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
literature
- Georg Uschmann: Gadow, Hans. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 14 ( digitized version ).
- Obituary for Hans Friedrich Gadow . In: Ibis . tape 70 , no. 3 , 1928, pp. 534-542 (English).
Web links
- Literature by and about Hans Friedrich Gadow in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ entry on Gadow; Hans Friedrich (1855-1928) in the Archives of the Royal Society , London
personal data | |
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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 |