Hans Schaanning

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Hans Thomas Lange Schaanning (born March 2, 1878 in Christiania , today Oslo, Norway , † March 5, 1956 in Kragerø , Norway) was a Norwegian ornithologist and polar explorer .

Life

Hans Schaanning was born in 1878 as the son of chief engineer Peder Schaanning (1843–1898) and his wife Agnes Helene Salvesen (1849–1934). Early on, his interest turned to ornithology . Even as a schoolboy he wrote a thesis on the Norwegian birds. He began studying at the University of Christiania and received a scholarship for a trip to Pasvik on the Norwegian-Russian border in the summer of 1900. He then broke off his studies and returned to Pasvik in the autumn of 1900. He was accompanied by Johan Koren , who took part in the Belgica expedition to Antarctica as a cabin boy and had acquired knowledge of the production of animal preparations as an assistant to the zoologist Emil Racoviță . They collected eggs and bird skins which they supplied to museums and collectors in Norway, Finland and Russia. On April 13, 1902, Schaanning married the 15-year-old daughter of his Finnish neighbor and landlord, Elsa ("Elsalil") Fiina Rautiola (1886-1907). He and Koren then took part in Kristian Birkeland's Northern Lights expedition as assistants to Hans Riddervord and spent the winter on Novaya Zemlya . The collaboration with Koren lasted until 1906. During this time they sold 52 skulls, 224 skins , 1,557 hides and 2,488 eggs.

In 1907 Schaanning published a book on the birds of eastern Finnmark . He moved from the Finnish-Russian to the Norwegian side of the valley and built a house there on the property he named Noatun. Elsa died in the summer at the age of 21, leaving him with three children. In 1909 Schaanning married again. Hedevig Lysholm Schjelderup (1888–1973) was the daughter of consul Jørgen Lysholm Schjelderup (1852–1928). The couple lived on Noatun until 1911 and then moved to Christiania. Schaanning lived here as a private person and engaged in bird studies. In 1916 his second book Jægerliv nordpaa (German "Jägerleben im Norden") was published. In 1918 he accepted a position as curator of the zoological department of the Stavanger Museum . The focus of the collections now switched from insects to birds. In 1920 Schaanning founded the first Norwegian ornithological society, the forerunner of today's Norsk Ornitologisk Forening , and in 1921 Norway's first ornithological journal, the Norsk ornithologisk tidsskrift , which was published until 1935. In 1937 he founded in Jæren the Ornithological Revtangen , the first of its kind in the Nordic countries. Here he started ringing birds in Norway.

Although Hans Schaanning did not have a degree in zoology, he was considered an excellent expert on the Norwegian bird world and an excellent field zoologist. He edited the ornithological collections of all Norwegian Arctic expeditions of his time from Otto Sverdrup's Fram Expedition 1898–1902 to Kristian Birkeland's Northern Lights Expedition 1902–1903, Roald Amundsen's Gjøa Expedition 1903–1907 and Maud's Expedition 1918–1925 to the expeditions to East Greenland and Jan Mayen in the early 1930s.

In 1948 Hans Schaanning retired and settled on the island of Kragerø. In his last scientific publication, published in 1954, he dealt with the collection of East Siberian birds of his friend Johan Koren, who died in Vladivostok in 1919 .

Fonts (selection)

  • Østfinmarkens fuglefauna. Ornitologiske meddelelser vedrorende trakterne om Varangerfjorden, specielt Sydvaranger's fauna in aarene 1900-1906 . In: Bergens Museum Aarbog . 1907, pp. 1-98
  • Norsk fugle register. Navnefortegnelse over Norges fugle og deres utbredelse hos os, tillikemed all literature navne i tides arranged in a systematic way. 1599-1912 . In: Bergens Museum Aarbog . Volume 6, 1913
  • Jægerliv nordpaa , Cammermeyers Forlag, 1916
  • Norges Fugle fauna . Cappelens Forlag, 1916
  • The birds. Report of the Scientific Results of Norwegian Expedition to Novaya Zemlja . 1921. pp. 1-15.
  • Birds from the North-Eastern Siberian Arctic Ocean . The Norwegian North Polar Expedition with the "Maud" 1918–1925. Volume 5, No. 6. 1928, pp. 3-16.
  • Zoological results of the Norwegian scientific expeditions to East-Greenland . 1. A Contribution to the Bird Fauna of East Greenland . 2. A Contribution to the Bird Fauna of Jan Mayen . Oslo 1933. (= Skrifter om Svalbard og Ishavet . Volume 49)
  • «Gjøa» expedition & «Fram» expedition. Birds from Arctic North-America: Ornithological results of the Fram Expedition 1898-1902 and the Gjøa Expedition 1903-1907 . AW Brøggers, Oslo 1933
  • A Contribution to the Ornithology of Eastern Siberia . In: Nytt magasin for zoologi , 1954, pp. 91-115.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Olga Akindinowna Makarova: Hans Schaanning and bird fauna research in the Pasvik valley. In: N. Polikarpova (Ed.): Hans Schaanning. The first ornithologist of Pasvik , Collection of articles, Ryazan 2014 (English)
  2. ↑ Naturhistorisk avdeling on the Sandalsand website (Norwegian), accessed on May 4, 2017
  3. ↑ Morten Ree: Norsk Ornitologisk Forening er 50 år! on the Norsk Ornitologisk Forening website (Norwegian), accessed May 7, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Schaanning, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schaanning, Hans Thomas Lange
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian ornithologist and polar explorer
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Christiania , Norway
DATE OF DEATH March 5, 1956
Place of death Kragerø , Norway