Hans von Berlepsch

Hans Hermann Carl Ludwig von Berlepsch ( born July 29, 1850 Good driving Bach at Witzenhausen, † February 27, 1915 in Göttingen ) was a German ornithologist.

(1829 - ) Berlepsch the elder son of the Baron, from 1869 Count Karl Friedrich Ludwig Hans von Berlepsch ( 1821-1893 ), landowner and member of the Prussian House of Lords, and his wife Johanna Margarete Theodore Koch was the daughter of Johann Hermann Hessian Minister of the Interior Koch. He studied zoology at the University of Halle. He used his inherited wealth to support bird collectors in South America, including Hermann von Jhering.

His collection of 55,000 birds was sold after his death to the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt am Main. According to him, the Berlepsche ray bird of paradise, the Berlepschelfe and Berlepschtinamu were named.

Works

• Critical Remarks on the Colibri literature, separately. from the Festschrift of the Association of Natural History at Cassel, Volume 1, 1886
• Critical Overview of the so-called Bogota- collections (SO Colombia ) occurring Colibri species and description of a new Colibri ( Cyanolesbia nehrkorni ), Journal of Ornithology, Volume 35, Number 3, 1888, pp. 313-336
• The birds of the island of Curacao after a cand of Mr. theol. Ernst Peters there -scale collection, G. Pätz, 1892
• On the birds of Cayenne, Zoological Museum, 1908
• With Gustav Mützel: Systematic directory of data collected by Mr. Gustav Garlepp in Brazil and northern Peru in the areas of the upper Amazon Skins, Miscellanea ornithologica, Volume 31, 1886
• With Hermann von Jhering: The birds of the neighborhood of Taquara do Mundo Novo, Prov. Rio Grande do Sul, Journal of the Total Ornithology, Volume 2, 1885, pp. 144-145.
• Jan Sztolcman, John Gerrard Keulemans: On the ornithological researches of M. Jean Kalinowski in Central Peru, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1896