Ludwig von Lorenz-Liburnau

Ludwig (von) Lorenz-Liburnau , also Ludwig Lorenz (von) Liburnau , (born August 26, 1856 in Fiume , † December 9, 1943 in St. Gilgen ) was an Austrian zoologist (especially ornithology ).

Life

Ludwig Lorenz was the son of the department head in the Ministry of Agriculture Joseph Roman Lorenz (Josef Roman von Lorenz-Liburnau) and studied natural sciences at the University of Vienna . In 1879 he received his doctorate there in zoology with a dissertation on parasitic worms, which he then continued in Leipzig while studying a suction worm from the stomach of an elephant. He was then a volunteer in the kk Hofnaturalienkabinett (later the Natural History Museum Vienna ), where he initially dealt with lower animals, but then switched to mammals and birds. He proved himself with the relocation of the museum to the Burgring (completed 1885 to 1889) with the reorganization of the collection and in 1888 he succeeded August von Pelzeln as curator for birds and mammals. In 1912 he took over the management of the zoology department. In 1908 he became a professor at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences. In 1920 he became a councilor and in 1922 he retired. His title of nobility was dropped in 1919 by the Nobility Repeal Act .

He worked on the collection of Andreas Reischek from New Zealand, birds from South Arabia, wild goats from Greece, among others, and ibexes and Rudolf Grauer's collection of mammals from Africa. Thanks to generous sponsors, he was able to expand the collection considerably. He himself collected in Dalmatia and the lower Danube, was a participant in the circumnavigation of Archduke Franz Ferdinand to India (including in southern Arabia) and visited Greenland twice.

He organized an observation service for bird migration in Austria and published a lot in the journal Schwalbe , of which he was also the editor. He founded the ornithological department of the Vienna Zoological and Botanical Society, of which he was an honorary member, and after his retirement was Vice President of the Association of Friends of the Natural History Museum. He was a corresponding member of the Zoological Society of London and an honorary member of the Royal Hungarian Ornithological Institute in Budapest.

His brother Norbert Lorenz von Liburnau (1859–1924) was a chemist.

He first described Hadropithecus, among others .

literature

• Rokitansky:  Lorenz von Liburnau, Ludwig. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1972, p. 320 f. (Direct links on p. 320 , p. 321 ).

Web links

• Moriz Sassi: Councilor Prof. Dr. Ludwig von Lorenz-Liburnau, pdf