Hans Johansen

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Hans Christian Johansen
Born21 november\3 december 1897
Riga, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire
Died18 December 1973(1973-12-18) (aged 76)
Hjortekær Copenhagen, Denmark
NationalityDanish
Alma materRitter und Domschule zu Reval (diploma 1916)
Tomsk University (no degree)
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (diploma 1924)
Scientific career
FieldsZoology, Zoogeography, Ornithology
InstitutionsTomsk University, Herder-Institut Riga, University of Copenhagen,
Academic advisorsHermann Eduardovich Johansen
Notable studentsVasily Nikolaevitch Skalon, Alexander Jakovlevitch Janushevitch, Igor Aleksandrovitch Dolgushin

Hans Christian Johansen (2 December 1897–18 December 1973) was a Danish-Russian professor of zoology, first at Tomsk State University, later at the University of Copenhagen.

Life

Hans Johansen was born in

Altai mountains for nearly two years. In Altai, he first married A.T. Yalbacheva. He made a collection of some 500 bird specimens. During the summer of 1920, he investigated the Biysk steppe and spent the winter of 1920/1921 in Tomsk
.

From May 1921, he undertook doctoral studies in

Kamchatka in 1928, and shortly thereafter settled on the Commander Islands
as a scientific leader of fur animal exploitation there. He stayed there for 3½ years.

Professor

St Petersburg
.

In October 1937, Johansen was expelled from the Soviet Union like all foreign citizens. He came to Estonia where was unemployed, later worked at the Herder Institut, Latvia, and in the Germany. In May 1944 he moved from Germany to Denmark. His mother, daughter and older sister had moved to Denmark earlier. Here he was employed at the Zoological Museum of the University of Copenhagen and headed its bird ringing centre 1943–1960.

Later he actively studied birds of the whole world, visited North and South America, East Africa, and South Asia. He repeatedly visited the

Aleut
.

At the end of his life he bought a cottage on the isle of Læsø, the barren landscape of which reminded him of Siberia. He later donated this house to the University of Copenhagen. A field laboratory was made out of it. He also donated part of his library to Tomsk State University.

Hans Johansen wrote a full treatise of the bird fauna of Western Siberia published in a suite of papers from 1943 to 1961, Die Vogelfauna Westsibiriens in Journal für Ornithologie (now Journal of Ornithology) vol. 91 - 102.

Selected scientific works

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