Constantin Wilhelm Lambert Gloger

Constantin Wilhelm Lambert Gloger ( born September 17, 1803 in Kasischka, Circle Grottkau Silesia, † December 30, 1863 in Berlin) was a German zoologist and ornithologist.

Life

He studied natural sciences in 1824 in Berlin and Breslau; In 1830 he received his doctorate. He began while studying with the study of the avifauna of the Giant Mountains. In 1830 he became a teacher in Breslau and at the same time a member of the 1652 founded the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, which has since 1878 been based in Halle (Saale ). In 1843 he moved his residence from Wroclaw to Berlin, where he worked for the Zoological Museum in Berlin and worked in the editorial board of the Journal of Ornithology.

Work

Gloger gained worldwide fame through his 1833 in the Scriptures The altering of birds imposed by influence of climate Glogersche rule. He also built the first animal-friendly boxes for bats and developed the structural differences between swallows and swifts.

Writings

• On the natural history of white cohesive cross beak loxia taenioptera (1829 )
• Silesia vertebrate fauna. A systematic overview of occurring in this province quadrupeds, birds, amphibians and fish. ( 1833) doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.63781
• The birds by altering the influence of climate ( 1833)
• Complete Handbook of Natural History of the Birds of Europe (from 1834)
• Nonprofit hand and auxiliary Book of Natural History ( 1841)