Anton Reichenow

Anton Reichenow ( born August 1, 1847 in Charlottenburg, † July 6, 1941 in Hamburg ) was a German ornithologist.

Anton Reichenow 1874 Assistant at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin. In 1888, he was the successor of his father Jean Louis Cabanis ( 1816-1906 ) responsible for the ornithological department. In 1906 he was finally deputy director of the museum. In 1893 he became Secretary General of the German Ornithological Society also as a successor to Jean L. Cabanis.

From 1872 to 1873 he undertook a scientific expedition to the Ivory Coast and Gabon and Cameroon. He examined animals that had brought his shortly after returning late friend Gustav Adolf Fischer (1848-1886) from Africa.

From 1893 to 1921 Reichenow was chief editor of the Journal of Ornithology. During this time he also released the Ornithological monthly reports. After his retirement in 1921 he went to Hamburg, where he continued to actively cooperate at the local Zoological Museum.

As a specialist in African birds he brought three volumes of The Birds of Africa out ( 1900-1905 ). This opened up the basis for the studies of the fauna of this continent. The collections of the Natural History Museum in Berlin has been significantly improved. About his field of ornithology, he also dealt with reptiles and amphibians.

Publications

• The Negro peoples in Cameroon (Berlin, 1873).
• Bird images from distant zones - Pictures and descriptions of parrots ( publisher of Theodor Fischer, Kassel, 1878-1883 )
• The German colony of Cameroon (Berlin, 1884).
• The avifauna of Cameroon ( 1890-1892 ).
• The bird fauna of the neighborhood of Bismarckburg (1893 ).
• The birds of German East Africa (Berlin, 1894).
• Birds of the world ocean (1908 ).
• The bird fauna of the Central African lakes region (Leipzig, 1911).
• The ornithological collections of the zoologischbotanischen Cameroon Expedition (Berlin, 1911).
• The characteristics of birds of Germany ( Neumann Verlag, 1902)
• The birds. Manual of systematic ornithology (Stuttgart, 1913)