Theodore K. Lorenz
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Theodore K. Lorenz or Fyodor Karlovich Lorenz (
Lorenz was born in Vilyun, now in Poland. His father was a textile specialist from Saxony who moved to the Russian Empire where Lorenz grew up. He was educated at home and after studying three years at school he began to work from the age of 16 in a music company. His father later moved to the Bogorodsk district where Lorenz enjoyed hunting excursions and began to work on taxidermy. He worked briefly, following his father's business, in dyeing. He then became a specimen preparator and participated in the Moscow Polytechnic Exhibition of 1872. He worked as a
Lorenz was an authority on
Lorenz is buried in the Vyedenskiye Gory cemetery in Moscow. A species of snake,
Works
Partial list (all in German):
- "Die Lazurmeise, Parus cyanus". Journal für Ornithologie(1871)
- Beitrag zur Kentniss der Ornithologischen Fauna an der Nordseite des Kaukasus (Moscow, 1887)
- "Briefliches über zwei neue Fasanen-Abarten ". Journal für Ornithologie 36: 571–572. (1888)
- "Ein neur Bastard - Chrysomitris spinus x Acanthis linaria". Journal für Ornithologie 38: 98-100. (1890)
- "Die Vögel des Moskauer Gouvernements ". Bull. Soc. Nat. Moscou 6: 263–321. (1893) – 7: 337–354. (1894) – 8: 325–350. (1895)
- "Über Tetrao tetrix subspec. viridianus". Journal für Ornithologie 39: 366–368. (1891)
- "Einiges über den von Herrn V. v. Tschudi beschriebenen seltenen Rackelhahn ". Journal für Ornithologie 39: 405–412. (1891)
- "Wiederum Einiges über Rackelwild und Hahnenfedrigkeit ". Journal für Ornithologie 42: 416–425. (1894)
- "Phasianus mongolicus turcestanicus, nov. subspec". Ornith. Mber. 4: 189-191 .(1895)
References
- ^ Фадеев, И.В. (2007). "Коллекторы ГДМ". Труды Государственного Дарвиновского музея. М., Изд. ГДМ. Вып. Х. С. (in Russian): 23–66.
- ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Lorenz, T. K.", p. 160).