Philogène Auguste Galilée Wytsman

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Birth certificate of Philogène Auguste Galilée Wytsman (1866–1925) as Filogen August Galileas Wytsman on August 12, 1866

Philogène Auguste Galilée Wytsman (born August 12, 1866 in Termonde , † March 1, 1925 in Tervuren ) was a Belgian entomologist and ornithologist .

Live and act

Wytsman was a book publisher in Brussels. He was the son of Clément César Henri Joseph Wytsman (1825–1870), a notary, shipping agent and historian from Austria, and Emma Marie b. Cocquyt and brother of the Impressionist painter Rodolphe Wytsman . In addition to zoology, he was also interested in handicrafts and art.

Wytsman was the publisher of large-scale compilations on birds and insects in Brussels with the participation of many European scientists.

Wytsman was the editor of Genera Avium, a series that was published in 26 parts. In the second part from 1905 he was also an author on the Todis (Todidae). In addition Wytsman processed Ernst Hartert (1859-1933) the Breitrachen (Eurylaimidae) (Part 1, 1905), Tommaso Salvadori (1835-1923) the Kakapo (Strigopidae) (Part 3, 1905), the Nestor parrots ((Nestoridae) Part 4, 1905), the cockatoos (Cacatuidae) (part 5, 1905), the loris (Loriinae) (part 11, 1910), edible parrots (Cyclopsittacidae today Psittaculinae) (part 12, 1910), Philip Lutley Sclater (1829–1913) the mouse birds (Coliidae) (part 6, 1906) and the glossy birds (Galbulidae) (part 10, 1909), Alphonse Joseph Charles Dubois (1839–1921) the pelicans (Pelecanidae) (part 7, 1907), the turacos (Musophagidae) (part 8, 1907) and the hornbills (Bucerotidae) (part 13, 1911), Carl Eduard Hellmayr (1878–1944) the purrbirds (Pipridae) (part 9, 1910), the treecreepers (Certhiidae) (part 15, 1911), the Kleiber (Sittidae) (part 16, 1911), the Goldhähnchen (Regulidae) (part 17, 1911), the tits (Paridae) (part 18, 1911), the Chaparraltimalie (Chamaeidae) (part 23, 1913), the Vangawürger ( Hyposittidae h ute Vangidae) (part 24, 1913), Carl Parrot (1867–1911) the bee-eaters (Meropidae) (part 14, 1911), and Louis Lucien Brasil (1865–1918) the cranes (Gruidae) (part 19, 1913), the cassowaries (Casuariidae) (part 20, 1913), the kagu (Rhynochetidae) (part 21, 1913), the kiwis (Apterygidae) (part 22, 1913), the emus (Dromaiidae) (part 25, 1914) and the stilt claws (Mesitidae) (part 26, 1914).

Fonts

  • Publisher: Genera Avium, 26 parts, Brussels: L. Desmet-Verteneuil, 1905 to 1914 online
  • Publisher: Genera Insectorum, 219 parts, Brussels: L. Desmet-Verteneuil, 1902 to 1970, Biodiversity Library, termite volume

literature

  • Hans Franz Paul Hedicke: From the entomological world . In: German Entomological Journal . tape 1925 , no. 3 , 1925, p. 250-251 , doi : 10.1002 / mmnd . 192519250311 .
  • Unknown: Brief death note . In: Entomological news. tape 36 , 1925, pp. 224 ( online [accessed June 3, 2015]).
  • Auguste Lameere: Brief death note . In: Bulletin & annales de la Société entomologique de Belgique . tape 65 , 1925, pp. 98 .
  • Raymond Peschet: Brief death note . In: Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France . 1925, p. 97 ( online [accessed June 3, 2015]).
  • Charles Désiré Dupond : Necrology . In: Le Gerfaut - Revue belge d'Ornithologie . tape 15 , no. 1 , 1925, ISSN  0251-1193 , pp. 51-52 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date and place of birth according to Anvers Zoo, volumes 40–44, 1974, p. 126, obituary for his daughter Hélène Wytsman
  2. ^ Place and date of death according to Hubert Massey Whittell, The literature of Australian Birds, 1954, p. 783
  3. ↑ As described in Ernest Matthieu, Congrès Archéologique et historique d´Enghien, Enghien 1899, p. 44, residing at Rue Neuve, Brussels. Archives
  4. ↑ Anvers Zoo, 1974, loc. cit.
  5. ↑ Wytsman was the scientific editor of Intérieurs & mobiliers de styles anciens: collection recueillie en Belgique , Brussels: F. Salmain 1902
  6. ↑ [Genera Avium]
personal data
SURNAME Wytsman, Philogène Auguste Galilée
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wytsman, Filogen August Galileas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian entomologist and ornithologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Termonde
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1925
Place of death Tervuren