Karl Sartorius (ornithologist)

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Karl Sartorius (born July 3, 1875 in Oldenburg ; † October 15, 1967 there ) was a German teacher and ornithologist .

Life

Karl Sartorius' parents were the painter and decorator Hermann Sartorius and his wife Friederike. Sartorius grew up in Bad Zwischenahn . He made the first written ornithological observation in April 1891 at the age of 16. Karl Sartorius studied biology , in which he also did his doctorate , and attended the art college in Berlin for a short time , but he learned to paint and draw on his own . From 1898 to 1903 he worked as a drawing teacher at the Mariengymnasium in Jever . In 1903, at the age of 28, he returned to Oldenburg to work as a drawing and natural history teacher at the old grammar school . In addition to ornithology, Sartorius dealt with music and painting. Sartorius is buried in the Gertrudenfriedhof in Oldenburg.

family

Sartorius' sister Ella emigrated with her husband, who later became Hollywood - director Franz Reicher , in the United States of. Sartorius' marriage resulted in their daughter Ella in 1904.

Act

Karl Sartorius is known for his ornithological and animal painting works. The beach bird collection of today's Museum for Nature and Man in Oldenburg goes back mainly to Sartorius. In 1914 Sartorius was accepted into the Oldenburg Artists' Association. Sartorius was the founder of the Ornithological Society Oldenburg in 1922, which today exists as the Ornithological Working Group Oldenburg (OAO) in NABU . Together with Wilhelm Krüger from Wilhelmshaven and Heinrich Schütte from Oldenburg, he campaigned for "sea bird protection" on Mellum , from which in 1925 the " Mellumrat " emerged. In 1934 he was co-donor of a memorandum of the Landesverein für Heimatkunde und Heimatschutz and the Oldenburger Verein für Landesgeschichte und Altertumskunde submitted to the Ministry of the Interior, which had the purpose of encouraging extensive protection of the landscape. Since 1949 he was an honorary member of the Oldenburger Landesverein.

reception

The Ornithological Working Group Oldenburg has named a bird watching hut in the Moorhauser Polder after Sartorius.

Works (selection)

Sartorius' work comprises about 25 writings that deal primarily with the native bird species. The works appeared primarily in periodicals such as the “Ornithological Monthly Reports”, “Ornithological Messages”, “the Journal for Ornithology ” and the “Oldenburger Jahrbuch”.

  • Sartorius, Karl (1950): The Hunteniederung before Oldenburg. - Oldenburger Jahrbuch 50 (1): pp. 81–122.
  • Sartorius, Karl: The oystercatcher: Haematopus ostralegus L.: according to the bird watchdog reports from Mellum, Wangerooge and Oldeoog, the reports from the employees of the Helgoland ornithological station and the observation results of the ornithological working group Ems-Weser-Niederelbe, Oldenburg 1953.
  • Sartorius, Karl (1954): Die Uferschnepfe, Limosa limosa L. - Oldenburger Jahrbuch 54: pp. 65–93.
  • Sartorius, Karl: The honey buzzard (Pernis apivorus) in the north German lowlands: based on the observations of the employees of the ornithological working group Ems-Weser-Niederelbe and with the support of the "Mellumrat" and the ornithological station Helgoland, Ornithologische Mitteilungen; Vol. 7, pp. 61-69
  • Karl Sartorius: The tree falcon (Falco subbuteo) in the northwestern German plains between the Ems, Weser and Niederelbe: on the basis of observations made by the employees of the "Ornithological Working Group Ems-Weser-Niederelbe" and with the support of the Mellum Council and the Helgoland ornithological station, Ornithologische Mitteilungen; Vol. 7, pp. 181-191.
  • Exhibition of works by the Oldenburg painter Karl Sartorius and the 22 new acquisitions by the Oldenburger Kunstverein: April 19 to May 3, 1964 Sartorius, Karl, Oldenburg, 1964

Literature about Karl Sartorius

  • Richard Tantzen : Contributions to the history of ornithology in Oldenburg with a record of the state's bird life, in: Oldenburger Jahrbuch 50, 1950, pp. 246-303.
  • "Report of the Oldenburger Landesverein", in: Oldenburger Jahrbuch 67, 1967, p. 248.
  • Wilhelm Dursthoff: In memory of the scientist Dr. Carl Sartorius, teacher in Jever and Oldenburg - ornithologist, painter and writer, in: Nordwest-Heimat, August 9, 1975.
  • Johannes RA Weske: Memories of a US-Oldenburg resident of the ornithologist and pedagogue Karl Sartorius (1875-1967), in: Contributions to the natural history of Lower Saxony 45, 1992, pp. 37-40.
  • Thorsten Krüger: Distribution maps of selected breeding bird species in the Oldenburger Land from 1929. In: The birds of Lower Saxony and the State of Bremen - On the knowledge of the bird world in Lower Saxony 1920–1940 and addenda to the special part. Special series B, issue 1.2, 2017, p. 60 ff.
  • Gerhard Wietek : 200 years of painting in the Oldenburger Land, Oldenburg 1986, p. 271. ISBN 3-9801191-0-6
  • Jürgen Weichardt (Ed.): From Latin School to Old High School Oldenburg 1573-1973 . Holzberg Verlag, Oldenburg 1973, p. 260. ISBN 3-87358-062-4

Newspaper articles

  • Nordwestzeitung - Article from July 2nd, 1955 - The best connoisseur of the Oldenburg bird world.
  • Nordwestzeitung - Article from March 1st, 1957 - Large spring exhibition of the Oldenburg Artists Association.
  • Nordwestzeitung - Article from July 2nd, 1959 - A winter picture rediscovered.
  • Nordwestzeitung - article from 04/20/1964 - pictures by Karl Sartorius.
  • Nordwestzeitung - Article from July 3rd, 1965 - Hein Bredendiek: Karl Sartorius, Oldenburg, on his 90th birthday.
  • Nordwestzeitung - Article from 09.08.1982 - Hans Fr. Redelfs: The heart is not carried on the tongue. Carl Sartorius was a man with many peculiarities.
  • Nordwestzeitung - Article from January 14th, 2000 - Marlies Oehme: Eccentric and contentious spirit. The Oldenburg Karl Sartorius - a precise observer of the world of birds.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joachim Seitz: Nature conservation and landscape management in Lower Saxony and Bremen . 2012, p. 276 .
  2. ↑ a b c NABU Oldenburg - Nature and environmental protection in the Oldenburger Land. Retrieved September 26, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Jörg Grützmann: The Ornithological Association Oldenburg (OAO). Retrieved September 26, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b Hein Bredendiek: Karl Sartorius, Oldenburg, on his 90th birthday . In: Nordwestzeitung . July 7, 1965.
  5. ↑ sky - S. Accessed on September 26, 2019 (German).
  6. ↑ a b NLA OL Erw 80 - Arcinsys detail page. Retrieved September 26, 2019 .
  7. ↑ a b NLA OL Erw 80 - Arcinsys detail page. Retrieved September 26, 2019 .
  8. ↑ a b NABU Oldenburg - Nature and environmental protection in the Oldenburger Land. Retrieved September 26, 2019 .
  9. ↑ a b Thorsten Krüger: Distribution maps of selected breeding bird species in the Oldenburger Land from 1929 . In: The birds of Lower Saxony and the state of Bremen - Knowledge of the bird world of Lower Saxony 1920-1940 and addenda to the special part . Special series B, issue 1.2, 2017, p. 60 ff .
  10. ^ Nordwest-Zeitung: Naturschutzbund BORNHORST: Ornithologist in a renovated hut on the post. August 31, 2011, accessed September 27, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Sartorius, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and ornithologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Oldenburg
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1967
Place of death Oldenburg