Ernst Hartert

Grave of Ernst Hartert in Waldfriedhof Dahlem, Berlin

Ernst Johann Otto Hartert (29 October 1859 – 11 November 1933) was a German ornithologist.

Life and career

Hartert was born in Hamburg, Germany. He was employed by Lionel Walter Rothschild as ornithological curator of Rothshild's private museum at Tring from 1892 to 1929.

Hartert published the quarterly museum periodical Novitates Zoologicae (1894–39) with Rothschild, and the Hand List of British Birds (1912) with Francis Charles Robert Jourdain, Claud Ticehurst and Harry Witherby. He wrote Die Vögel der paläarktischen Fauna (1910–22) and travelled in India, Africa, and South America on behalf of his employer.

In 1930, Hartert retired to Berlin, where he died in 1933.[1]

Hartert had been a mentor to Erwin Stresemann, whose cremated remains were interred at Hartert's grave in 1972.[2]

Works

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A complete list of Hartert's publications is contained in Hartert's obituary by Rothschild (1934) in the journal Ibis cited below.

  • (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.
  • (1920). Die Vögel Europas.

Eponyms

A species of lizard, Hemiphyllodactylus harterti, and 12 birds are named in his honor.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Rothschild LW (1934). "Ernst Johann Otto Hartert (1859–1933): An Appreciation". Ibis 76 (2): 350-377 + Plates IX & X.
  2. ↑ Nöring, Rolf (1973). "Erwin Stresemann. 22. 11. 1889 – 20. 11. 1972". Journal für Ornithologie 114: 455-500 (in German).
  3. ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Hartert", p. 117).

Further reading

  • Stresemann E (1967). "Hartert, Ernst Johann Otto", p. 711. In: Neue Deutsche Biographie, Volume 7. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. 784 pp. ISBN 3-428-00188-5 (in German).

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