Henry Seebohm

Henry Seebohm ( born July 12, 1832 in Bradford, Yorkshire, † November 26, 1895 in London ) was an English steel manufacturer, and amateur ornithologist, Oologe and explorer.

Henry Seebohm parents were the Englishwoman ester Wheeler of Hitchin and the German -born Quaker Benjamin Seebohm from Bad Pyrmont. He had three sisters: Julia, Benjamin and Frederic. Seebohm was interested from an early age for natural history and operation ornithological studies, particularly of eggs.

His professional career began as a cashier at Seebohm and Dieck Steel Ltd, a steel company in Sheffield. Later he became a producer. After his marriage to Mary Healey in 1859 he undertook extensive expeditions to Greece, Turkey, Scandinavia, Japan and the Siberian tundra and the Yenisei. About his trips to Siberia published in 1880 and 1882 the industry Sibiria in Europe and in Asia Sibiria. 1901 came out posthumously a third work entitled The Birds of Siberia.

Other works of Henry Seebohm were: A History of British Birds (1883 ), The Geographical Distribution of the family Charadriidae (1887 ), The Birds of the Japanese Empire (1890 ) and A Monograph of the Turdidae (1898 ).

Seebohm was the first European ornithologist who used the American system of trinominalen nomenclature for the classification of subspecies. East Asian bird species such as the Giant 's Fish Owl, the Okinawa woodpecker and the Taiwan Meise were described by him for the first time scientifically.

Other species, such as the Seebohm Buschsänger ( Amphilais seebohmi ) were named after him.

Works

• Seebohm, Henry: The Birds of Siberia: To the Petchora Valley. Alan Sutton Publishing, 1901 (reprint 1985), ISBN 0-86299-259-1.
• Seebohm, Henry: The Birds of Siberia: The Yenesei. Alan Sutton Publishing, 1901 ( reprint 1985), ISBN 0-86299-260-5.

Literature on Seebohm

• Mullens, William Herbert & Swann, Harry Kirke ( 1917/Nachdruck 1986) A Bibliography of British Ornithology ISBN 0-85486-098-3