Hans Friedrich Gadow

Hans Friedrich Gadow ( born March 8, 1855 in Old Krakow, Pomerania, † May 16 1928 in Cambridge, England ) was a German zoologist.

Gadow attended school in Frankfurt an der Oder and studied in Berlin, Jena and Heidelberg and received his PhD degree in Jena under Ernst Haeckel, whose work "On our present knowledge of the origin of man," he translated into English ( "The last link: our present knowledge of the descent of man "). 1880 Gadow was appointed to the Natural History Museum in London, where he worked on the cataloging of existing birds there.

1884 Gadow was to succeed Osbert Salvin ( 1835-1898 ) Curator of Collections Stricklandian the University of Cambridge, where he simultaneously Lecturer and later Reader in the Department " Morphology of Vertebrates " was. In 1881 he became a member of the British Ornithologists ' Union, and in 1892 he was elected as a member ( "Fellow" ) to the Royal Society.

Gadow has published a number of important works on anatomy and systematics of vertebrates and especially the birds.

Gadow married Clara Maud, one of the daughters of the English physician George Edward Paget ( 1809-1892 ).

Works

• On the classification of birds (1892 )
• Together with Ernst Haeckel: The last link: our present knowledge of the descent of man (1898 )
• Together with Heinrich Georg Bronn: The classes and orders of the animal kingdom
• Together with Alfred Newton (1829-1907): A Dictionary of Birds (1893-1896)
• In Northern Spain (1897 )
• A Classification of Vertebrata, Recent and Extinct (1898 )
• Together with Richard Sharpe: Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum
• Passeriformes (2 volumes)
• Through Southern Mexico (1908 )
• The Wanderings of Animals (1913 )
• Posthumously (1933 ), along with JF Gaskell and HL Green: The Evolution of the Vertebral Column: A Contribution to the Study of Vertebrate Phylogeny