Herman Schalow

Herman Schalow

Herman Schalow (born January 17, 1852 in Berlin , † December 9, 1925 there ), also falsely spelled Hermann Schalow, was a German banker and amateur ornithologist .

He learned from Jean Louis Cabanis and worked with Anton Reichenow . He joined the German Ornithological Society in 1872 at the age of twenty. On the board of the association he worked first as secretary, then as treasurer, between 1894 and 1907 he was vice-president and from 1907 to 1921 president. After his age-related resignation, the society made him an honorary member and in 1924 honorary chairman. In 1912 the Prussian government awarded him the title of professor for his work in the field of ornithology. He was also an honorary member of the British Ornithological Society, the Imperial Russian Society for the Acclimatization of Animals and Plants in Moscow, the Hungarian Ornithological Institute, the Natural Research Society of the Osterland , the Ornithological Society in Bavaria, the Ornithological Society in Leipzig and other societies.

He is best known as the author of the writings Die Musophagidae (1886) and contributions to the bird fauna of the Mark Brandenburg (1919). Schalow also wrote a monograph on the avifauna of the Arctic, The Birds of the Arctic (1905), and described 270 species . He edited Richard Böhm's travelogue to East Africa , Zanzibar and Tanganyika : From Zanzibar to Tanganyika, letters from East Africa by Dr. Richard Böhm (JA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1888).

In the Berlin Museum of Natural History a library bears his name, which he donated to the German Ornithological Society.

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• Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins (2003): Whose Bird? Common Bird Names and the People They Commemorate. Yale University Press (New Haven, London)
• Maurice Boubier (1925): L´Évolution de l´ornithologie. Librairie Félix Alcan (Paris), Nouvelle collection scientifique: ii + 308 pp.
• Ludwig Gebhardt (2006): The ornithologists of Central Europe. Aula-Verlag, Wiebelsheim.
• Wolfgang Mädlow: Comments on the new edition. In. Herman Schalow: Contributions to the bird fauna of the Mark Brandenburg. Reprint, published by the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Berlin - Brandenburgischer Ornithologen (ABBO), Rangsdorf, 2004. ISBN 3-9807627-9-3