Hans Strunden

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Hans Strunden. (Photo by Ursula Hellmann)

Hans Strunden ( Gelsenkirchen April 6, 1926 - July 29, 2008 in Essen ) was a German dentist and non-fiction author with a focus on parrot birds .

Life

He graduated from the Adolf-Hitler-Gymnasium Gelsenkirchen . From February 1943, pupils born between 1926 and 1928 were obliged to serve as air force helpers. Sometimes the lessons - if they take place - are also relocated directly to the flak positions. During the Second World War he was with the mountain troops . After the war, Strunden studied dentistry in Münster. He received his dental license in 1951/52. In 1953 he did his doctorate there with a thesis on the focal test method with penicillin . After graduating, he settled as a dentist in his hometown of Gelsenkirchen.

Since his school days he has been an active rowing athlete at the Gelsenkirchen 1920 e. V. (RVG) and its chairman from 1956 to 1958. As a rowing athlete and as an alpine winter athlete, he took part in German youth championships with numerous victories.

His humorous non-fiction book Dentists Are Also People , published in 1960, was reprinted in extracts in the Rheinisches Zahnärzteblatt in the 1990s . The illustrations came from Olaf Lübcke, who also received his doctorate in dentistry in Münster in 1953.

In 1977 Strunden traveled to Indonesia for the first time, especially to see parrots in their natural habitats. He also got an impression of the endangerment of the species. Further trips to the parrots' homelands followed.

In addition to travel reports and species protection, Strunden's non-fiction books and articles on parrots, which have been published since the mid-1980s, focus on the history of parrot keeping and parrot studies. They first appeared in the Feathered World . In 1986 he published an article together with Thomas Arndt , ZGAP chairman Roland Wirth and second ZGAP chairman Anton Sojer: No chance for the Spix's macaw ? . The extinction of the species in the field was to be expected at this time, in the field only 3 animals existed. Later, in the magazine Parageien founded in 1988 , which was first published by Horst Müller-Verlag and later by Arndt-Verlag , he published 61 articles between 1988 and 2003. At times he worked as an editor for the specialist journal Parrotien .

In 1998, his commitment to the protection of species led to the establishment of the Strunden Parrot Foundation (see below). Strunden died on July 29, 2008 at the age of 82 after a long and serious illness. Between 2000 and 2004 he published articles on bird motifs on coins, some of which were ancient, for the sheets of the Naumann Museum.

Books

  • About the focal test method with penicillin. o. O., 1953 (Münster, dissertation from November 5, 1953)
  • Dentists are people too . Quintessenz-Verlag 1960 (drawings: Olaf Lübcke)
  • Parrots then and now. Horst Müller Verlag, Bomlitz 1984
  • The names of the parrots and parakeets. Horst Müller Verlag, Bomlitz 1986
  • Cockatoos and their world. Horst Müller Verlag, Bomlitz 1989
  • Alexander parakeets Horst Müller Verlag, Bomlitz 1992

Literature and Sources

  • Dr. Hans Strunden celebrates his 80th birthday. In: The Aviary 2006, p. 98
  • On the death of Dr. Hans Strunden. In: Parrots September 2008, p. 292 (cited as obituary)
  • Rene Wüst / Walter Schulz: The Strunden Parrot Foundation and the projects it supports. In: Parrots May 2011, pp. 161f. on-line

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rheinisches Zahnärzteblatt (PDF) from March 2008. Accessed on February 15, 2015.
  2. ^ Anniversary publication for the 50th anniversary of the RVG 1970
  3. ^ The Adolf Hitler Gymnasium in Schalke online at www.gelsenzentrum.de
  4. ^ Anniversary publication for the 50th anniversary of the RVG 1970
  5. ↑ a b Rheinisches Zahnärzteblatt No. 2 ( Memento of the original from February 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF) February 2004. Retrieved February 15, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zahnaerztekammernordrhein.de
  6. ^ Anniversary publication for the 50th anniversary of the RVG 1970
  7. ^ Anniversary publication for the 50th anniversary of the RVG 1970
  8. ↑ Olaf Lübcke: Clinical, chemical and bacteriological investigations of copper amalgam with special consideration of the newly published white copper amalgams. Münster, Med. F. Diss. July 29, 1953. DNB 480439427
  9. ↑ Strunden: On the trail of the yellow-cheeked cockatoo (Cacatua sulphurea). In: Parrots 2/1988, p. 50f. ( online ( Memento of the original from February 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.papageienfonds.de
  10. ^ Literature database of the Parrot Network Working Group .
  11. ↑ Fund for Endangered Parrots: 20 Years of Species Protection for Parrots Feathered World 02/2015
  12. ↑ Gefiederte Welt edition 12/1986, the article was reprinted online in the member information of the ZGAP ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , it was translated into English online by Tony Pittmann . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.papageienfonds.de
  13. ↑ Parrots: specialist magazine about keeping, breeding and Free life d. Parrots Parakeets in the catalog of the German National Library. Retrieved February 15, 2015.
  14. ↑ a b Obituary
personal data
SURNAME Strunden, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dentist and non-fiction author with a focus on parrots
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1926
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 2008
Place of death eat