Ernst Hartert
Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg | |
Died | 11 November 1933 Berlin, Germany | (aged 74)
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Known for | Hand-List of British Birds |
Spouse | Claudia Bernadine Elisabeth Hartert |
Children | One son |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Ornithologist |
Institutions | Natural History Museum at Tring |
Patrons | Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild |
Author abbrev. (zoology) | Hartert |
Ernst Johann Otto Hartert (29 October 1859 – 11 November 1933) was a widely published
Life and career
Hartert was born in the
Together with his wife, he was the first to describe the blue-tailed Buffon hummingbird subspecies (Chalybura buffonii intermedia Hartert, E & Hartert, C, 1894). The article On a collection of Humming Birds from Ecuador and Mexico appears to be their only joint publication.
Hartert was employed by Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild as ornithological curator of Rothshild's private Natural History Museum at Tring, in England from 1892 to 1929.[1]
Hartert
In 1930, Hartert retired to Berlin, where he died in 1933.[2]
Hartert had been a mentor to Erwin Stresemann, whose cremated remains were interred at Hartert's grave in 1972.[3]
Works
Among the written publications of Ernst Hartert are:[4]
- (1891). Katalog der Vogelsammlung im Museum der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Frankfurt am Main.
- (1897). Podargidae, Caprimulgidae und Macropterygidae.
- (1897). Das Tierreich.
- (1900). Trochilidae.
- (1902). Aus den Wanderjahren eines Naturforschers: Reisen und Forschungen in Afrika, Asien und Amerika, nebst daran anknüpfenden, meist ornithologischen Studien.
- (1903). Ueber die Pipriden-Gattung Masius Bp.
- (1910–1922). Die Vögel der paläarktischen Fauna: Systematische Übersicht der in Europa, Nord-asien und der Mittelmeerregion vorkommenden Vögel. Three volumes.
- Hartert, Ernst; OCLC 70467193.
- (1920). Die Vögel Europas.
Eponyms
A species of lizard, Hemiphyllodactylus harterti, and 12 birds are named in his honor.[5]
See also
References
- ^ a b c "Obituary: ERNST JOHANN OTTO HARTERT. 1859-1933" (PDF). British Birds. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
- ^ Rothschild (1934).
- ^ Nöring, Rolf (1973). "Erwin Stresemann. 22. 11. 1889 – 20. 11. 1972". Journal für Ornithologie 114: 455-500 (in German).
- ^ A complete list of Hartert's publications is contained in Hartert's obituary, Rothschild 1934.
- ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Hartert", p. 117).
Sources
- .
Further reading
- Witherby, H.F. (1933). "Ernst Johann Otto Hartert". In Nature, v. 123, no. 3344, 2 Dec. 1933, p. 846–7.
- ISBN 3-428-00188-5(in German).
External links
Media related to Ernst Hartert at Wikimedia Commons