Ernst Hartert

Ernst Johann Otto Hartert ( born October 29, 1859 in Hamburg, † November 11, 1933 in Berlin) was a German ornithologist.

Hartert was employed from 1892 to 1929 as a bird curator at the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum in Tring. A decades- long friendship connected him - despite the different specific concepts of both - with the animal taxonomists Otto Kleinschmidt. They only ended with Harterts death.

Hartert published with Lionel Walter Rothschild Museum Novitates Zoologicae magazine, published in 1894-1939. He was the author of the work The birds of the Palearctic fauna ( 1903-1922 ). In addition, he wrote to Francis Charles Robert Jourdain, Norman Frederic Ticehurst (1873-1960) and Henry Witherby (1873-1943) the work List of British Birds (1912). On behalf of Lord Rothschild, he traveled to India, Africa and South America. Hartert 1930 returned to Berlin, where he died in 1933.

Hartert described numerous species of birds for the first time scientifically, including the bristle ravens (Corvus rhipidurus ), the Amamiwaldschnepfe ( Scolopax mira ), the Mountain Buzzard ( Buteo oreophilus ) and the Riesensalangane ( Hydrochous gigas). The Hartertelfe ( Acestrura harterti ), the Hartertfroschmaul ( Batrachostomus harterti ) and the Peru - Buntschwänzchen ( Phlogophilus harterti ) are named after him.

Writings (selection )

In addition to numerous articles in the Museum Novitates Magazine Zoologicae Hartert was involved, among others, the following books: