Bruno Geisler
Bruno Geisler (5 October 1857,
ornithologist and bird illustrator.Career
In 1887, Bruno Geisler began collecting birds in
Museum of Ethnology Dresden) and to the dealer Wilhelm Schlüter
in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt. In 1893, Bruno Geisler became a curator and taxidermist in the Dresden museum.
The bird skins collected by Bruno and Herbert were studied by
Adolf Bernard Meyer then a professor at the Dresden museum. Bruno was also a bird illustrator. He became also well known for the bird plates in The birds of Celebes and the neighbouring islands by Adolf Meyer and Lionel William Wiglesworth published in Berlin by R. Friedländer in 1898, Anton Reichenow’s Die Vögel Afrikas Vols 1-3 published by J. Neuman in Neudamm between 1897 and 1905 and in the new Naumann's
, Naturgeschichte der Vögel Mitteleuropas published in 1900–1905.
Recognition
Frogs Oreophryne geislerorum and Dendropsophus giesleri are named after him, the first together with his brother, Herbert Geisler. Also specific names of three birds honour him.[1]
References
- ISBN 978-1-907807-42-8.
- Gebhart L., 1964 Die Ornithologen Mitteleuropas. Giessen, p. 108.
- Heyder, R., 1965 Der Vogelmaler Bruno Geisler. Abh. Dresden 28: 143–155. (Photo). Lists all illustrations.
- Jackson, C.E., 1999 Dictionary of Bird Artists of the World. 252 f.
- Jakobi A., 1925 50 Jahre Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden.
- Wichmann A., 1912 Nova Guinea 2. — Teil 2, Leiden. 517–518, 557-558
External links
- BDHL The birds of Celebes and the neighbouring islands
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