Gustav Radde

Gustav Ferdinand Richard Radde (27 November 1831 – 16 March 1903) was a German naturalist and Siberian explorer. Radde's warbler and several other species are named after him.

Biography

Radde was born in

In 1864 he eventually settled in

Animals named after him include birds such as Radde's warbler^[2] and Radde's accentor,^[2] and amphibians and reptiles such as the Mongolian toad (Pseudepidalea raddei),^[3] the Azerbaijan lizard (Darevskia raddei),^[4] a toadhead agama (Phrynocephalus raddei),^[4] and Radde's mountain viper (Montivipera raddei).^[4]

Collections

Radde was an avid

• Reisen im Süden von Ost-Sibirien in den Jahren 1855-59 (“Travels in the south of eastern Siberia during the years 1855-59,” 1862–1863)
• Vier Vorträge über den Kaukasus (“Four essays on the Caucasus,” 1874)
• Die Chews'uren und ihr Land (“The Chews'uren and their land,” 1878)
• Ornis Caucasica. Die Vogelwelt des Kaukasus (“Ornis Caucasica. The world of birds in the Caucasus,” 1884) at archive.org
• Das Ostufer des Pontus (“The east bank of the Pontus,” 1894)
• Die Sammlungen des kaukasischen Museums (“The collections of the Caucasus Museum,” 1900 et seq.)

In 1892, he wrote a Russian description of his voyage with the grand dukes Alexander and Sergeis Mikhailovitch.

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