Christian Ludwig Landbeck

Christian Ludwig Landmann Beck ( born December 11, 1807 in Ostheim (Alsace ); † September 3, 1890 in Santiago de Chile ) was a German - Chilean ornithologist.

Life

Christian Ludwig Landenbeck was born the son of a pastor in Ostheim in Alsace. At the age of seven he moved to Mossingen in the Swabian Alb. After he had finished the study of Kameralwissenschaft in Tübingen without testing, he worked as a civil servant Rent in Steinegg. In 1839 he became head of a training school at Ludwigsburg, and from 1845 until his emigration to Chile in 1852 he was bailiff in Klingenburg in Bavaria. In Chile, he worked unsuccessfully as an estate manager in Valdivia, to Rudolph Amandus Philippi gave him a job as a curator and second director of the Natural History Museum in Santiago de Chile. Between 1860 and 1868 he undertook together with Philippi numerous zoological excursions where they were able to demonstrate for the first time, among other taxa such as the Peruseeschwalbe, the Rotstirn Coot, the Dickschnabelzeisig, the jewelry Ammer Fink and the island spiny-tailed panties.

In addition to his work as a naturalist to land Beck made ​​a name as a bird illustrator and author of ornithological articles. His first release was the systematic enumeration of the birds Württemberg from the year 1834. 1846 appeared the Systematic list of birds Württemberg, in which he described 307 species as resident birds, breeding birds, line birds or vagrants. Further work on the avifauna Württemberg wrote Landenbeck for the book series The Book of the World: A term of Wissenswürdigsten (1843, 1850) and for the magazine The Zoological Garden (Editor: Carl Friedrich Noll ). During a five -month trip in 1838, he described the avifauna of Transylvania and the Danube lowlands. Articles, such as The Egret Island Adony and The Birds of Syrmia were published among others in the encyclopedic magazine Isis by Lorenz Oken. A number of records, collections and Illustrations Landenbeck had sold to Baron Johann Wilhelm von Müller were lost.

After Landenbeck named taxa

Philippi identified some insect and plant taxa by country Beck, including Cereus aethiops var landbeckii, calceolaria landbeckii, Gnaphalium landbeckii, Allidiostoma landbecki and Bombylius landbecki.