Kurt Floericke

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Kurt Ehrenreich Floericke (1869–1934)
Scheffelschlösschen, Radolfzell. Contemporary postcard from the location of the later South German ornithological station , used 1928.
Writing side of the above card: Kurt Floericke is writing to his wife Melanie Floericke in Stuttgart on March 23, 1928, his 59th birthday.
Front of the booklet "Grasshoppers and Dragonflies" (1922)

Kurt Ehrenreich Floericke (born March 23, 1869 in Zeitz ; † October 29, 1934 in Stuttgart ) was a German scientist, ornithologist and author of numerous popular scientific presentations. Other spellings are Curt instead of Kurt or Flöricke instead of Floericke .

biography

Kurt Floericke was born on March 23, 1869 in Zeitz. From 1889 he studied natural sciences in Breslau and Marburg . In 1893 he received his doctorate at the University of Marburg with the work Attempt an Avifauna in Silesia . In the same year Floericke founded the "Verein geschnügter Vogelfreunde" (VvV) in Rossitten on the Curonian Spit . The idea of ​​setting up an ornithological station there came up for the first time in the circle of this association. After his first trips, which took him to Bosnia , Bulgaria , Cyprus , Asia Minor and Palestine , Floericke had his permanent residence in Rossitten from 1894 to spring 1897.

Johannes Thienemann first visited the Curonian Spit as early as 1896 . 1901 founded this on behalf of the Ornithological German Society in Rossitten a bird observatory and was also her first scientific director. Floericke then left Rossitten and undertook extensive research trips to Eastern and Southeastern Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and South America in the following years.

In 1897/98 he was an assistant at the ornithological center in Budapest . In 1902 he settled in Vienna as a writer . His financial livelihood was secured when he joined the editorial team of KOSMOS magazine .

Floericke described in 1903 the new to science Buzzard subspecies ( Buteo buteo insularum ).

Floericke initiated the founding of the private Süddeutsche Vogelwarte eV (1928–1938) in Radolfzell on Lake Constance , the first inland ornithological in Germany, which took place on October 13, 1928 and whose scientific director he remained until 1931. In addition to his ornithological collection, which is now publicly accessible, with around 6500 bird skins and 4500 bird eggs, Floericke set up an observation and ringing station in the Scheffelschlösschen on the Mettnau .

As a freemason, he belonged to the humanitarian grand lodge "Freemasons' Association for the Rising Sun".

Floericke died of malaria that he contracted on his research trips. His grave in the Prague cemetery in Stuttgart still exists today.

Dedication names

Wilhelm Kobelt honored him in Euomphalia in 1898 ? floerickei , today a synonym for the leaf snail species Trichia erjaveci ( Brusina , 1870).

Honors

Publications (selection)

Floericke published countless works and small volumes, as well as around 800 articles and smaller messages in magazines. He followed his model Alfred Brehm and the pattern of his Brehm's animal life . He concluded human characteristics from the behavior of the animals. Floericke was able to inspire many people for nature with his popular science contributions.

During the First World War, Floericke also worked as a military writer, who described the campaigns of the Central Powers and the battles in the theaters of war in the east with national zeal.

  • Attempt of an avifauna in the province of Silesia (dissertation) . University printing house CL Pfeil ,, Marburg 1892, p. 15 .
  • The Masurian battles. [ Against the Muscovites. I. Half volume. ]. Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart 1916.
  • The struggle for Galicia. Lviv - Limanowa - Przemysl. [ Against the Muscovites. II. Half volume. ]. Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart 1916.
  • Against Lodz and Warsaw. [ Against the Muscovites. III. Half band ]. Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart 1916.
  • Käfervolk , Kosmos, Gesellschaft der Naturfreunde, Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart 1924.
  • Notes on Portuguese birds . In: Communications about the bird world . tape 25 , 1926, ZDB -ID 342698-1 , p. 12-17 .
  • Notes on Portuguese birds . In: Communications about the bird world . tape 25 , 1926, ZDB -ID 342698-1 , p. 37-44 .
  • Notes on Portuguese birds . In: Communications about the bird world . tape 25 , 1926, ZDB -ID 342698-1 , p. 72-78 .
  • Notes on Portuguese birds . In: Communications about the bird world . tape 25 , 1926, ZDB -ID 342698-1 , p. 467 .
  • Snails and clams. Stuttgart 1920.
  • Kurt Floericke: Dying Animals. Cosmos ribbon. Franckh'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart 1927.
  • Kurt Floericke: Birds on the Journey. Cosmos ribbon. Franckh'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart 1928.
  • Animal father Brehm - His research trips - A commemorative sheet for his 100th birthday . Franck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart 1929. and reissued in 2012 as a reprint of the original edition with ISBN 978-3-86347-316-7
  • Rodents with us and outside. Franckh, Stuttgart 1932, edited and critically commented by Jan Neersö. Large corporation - the small publishing house, Berlin 2010, ISBN 3-941934-01-5 .

He had also edited an "animal quartet" with images of domestic animals that appeared at the well-known game manufacturer Spear in the early 1920s .

literature

  • Ulrich Franke: Dr. Curt Floericke - naturalist, ornithologist, writer. With the first comprehensive bibliography of his writings. Norderstedt 2009. ISBN 3-8370-8545-7
  • Detlef Deye, Roland Rittig (Ed.): Zeitz - A cradle of German ornithology. Writings of the Museum Schloss Moritzburg Zeitz. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2009. ISBN 3-89812-680-3
  • Andreas W. Daum : Science popularization in the 19th century. Civil culture, scientific education and the German public, 1848–1914 . Oldenbourg, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-486-56337-8 .
  • Adolf Schmiedecke: Zeitz ornithologists. In: Series of publications by the Museum Zeitz, Moritzburg Castle. Issue 5. Zeitz 1968.
  • Wilhelm Kobelt: New Helix Species from Montenegro . In: Newsletter of the German Malacoological Society . tape 30 , no. 11/12 , 1898, pp. 161-165 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ulrich Franke: Dr. Curt Floericke - naturalist, ornithologist, writer. With the first comprehensive bibliography of his writings. Norderstedt 2009. ISBN 3-8370-8545-7 .
  2. ^ IOC World Bird List New World vultures, Secretarybird, kites, hawks, eagles
  3. ↑ Ornithological Working Group Bodensee (eds.), Peter Berthold, Karl Mühl, Siegfried Schuster: Peninsula Mettnau. History, nature, landscape , Constance 1979.
  4. ^ Wilhelm Kobelt, p. 305.
  5. ↑ David Hungendick: Hamster, you bitch. A long forgotten text on the animal kingdom! Kurt Floericke devotes himself to rodents in an unusual, extremely entertaining manner. The time , February 9, 2011

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personal data
SURNAME Floericke, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Flöricke, Curt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German natural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Zeitz , Saxony-Anhalt
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1934
Place of death Stuttgart