Max Eduard Gottlieb Bartels

Max Eduard Gottlieb Bartels (born January 24, 1871 in Bielefeld , † April 7, 1934 in Pasir Datar near Sukabumi , Dutch East Indies ) was a German-Dutch ornithologist who worked as an administrator for various agricultural and industrial companies in the Dutch East Indies.

Life

He studied in Osnabrück , where he met the Dutchman Jan ter Meulen. He initially worked in Amsterdam . In 1895 he traveled to the Dutch East Indies and worked for various agricultural and industrial companies. From 1896 he worked for the tea and cinchona bark company "Pangerango" on the southwest slope of the Gede . In 1901 he married Angeline Caroline Henriëtte (Lien) Maurenbrecher, with whom he had the sons Max Bartels junior (1902–1943), Ernst (1904–1976) and Hans (1906–1997).

In their free time, the whole family was enthusiastic about nature observation, especially birds . As a naturalist and collector, Bartels acquired a great deal of knowledge about the bird life of Java . He had contacts with specialist ornithologists such as Otto Finsch and Erwin Stresemann , was a member of various ornithological associations and left behind a large collection of bird specimens. His collection was acquired by the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie in Leiden in 1954 and comprised 14,643 bird hides , 4,000 eggs and 500 bird nests.

literature

• Anonymous: In memoriam MEG Bartels. In: De Tropische Natuur 25 (1936), 7, pp. 105-106 ( online ; PDF; 1.2 MB; Dutch).
• Jan-Hendrik Becking : The Bartels and other egg collections from the island of Java, Indonesia, with corrections to earlier publications of A. Hoogerwerf. In: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 129 (2009), pp. 18-48 ( online ; English).