Max Bartels junior

Max Bartels junior (born May 7, 1902 in Pasir Datar near Sukabumi in the Dutch East Indies ; † October 6, 1943 in Chungkai , Kanchanaburi Province in Thailand ) was a German-Dutch zoologist .

biography

Max Bartels junior was the son of ornithologist Max Eduard Gottlieb Bartels . In 1921, his family obtained Dutch citizenship . As a young man he was closely connected to his father's research in natural history. From 1925 to 1929 he studied zoology at the University of Bern , where he received his diploma ( cum laude ) in 1929 with a thesis on research on the labyrinth spider ( Agelena labyrinthica ). He lived in Switzerland until 1932, after which he traveled back to the Dutch East Indies .

Since he was financially independent, he turned down the offer to do research in the Botanical Garden of Bogor (Buitenzorg). He did research mainly on mammals and published publications about them. Publications from his time in Switzerland dealt with birds, including the pine jay and the alpine swift . He also described the Javanese subspecies of the partridge Arborophila javanica lawuana . He focused his research on Java more on mammals and was also a fan of big game hunting.

In 1942 he was sent to a Japanese internment camp and had to do forced labor in the construction of the Thailand-Burma railway , in the course of which he died in Thailand in 1943 .

literature

• KH Voous: In de ban van de Vogels. Scheffers, Utrecht 1995 (Dutch).