Hugo Weigold

Max Hugo Weigold ( born May 27, 1886 in Dresden, † 9 July 1973 in Bruck mountain ) was a German zoologist and ecologist. He is considered a pioneer of bird ringing and as a pioneer of nature conservation in Germany. He brought a broad public near the Nature Conservation thoughts.

Life

Weigold studied natural sciences and geography. First, among others, Ernst Haeckel at Jena University, and later with Richard Woltereck, Otto zur Strassen and Carl Chun at the University of Leipzig, where he received his doctorate in 1909. At the time of his doctorate in Leipzig, he worked for the Scientific Commission for Marine Research, but then changed her as an assistant to the Prussian Biological Institute on Helgoland. In 1910 he founded the Heligoland Bird Observatory, who found a scientific research station worldwide attention. From 1910 to 1924, the Ornithological stood before.

Weigold completed numerous expeditions, including the Riviera, Iceland or Syria. A journey with Walther Stoetzner to China and Tibet, which was scheduled from 1913 to 1915, had to be extended by the outbreak of the First World War to a total of 1919. 1916-1919 he worked as a substitute teacher in Guangzhou.

In 1924 he became director of the Natural History Department of the Provincial Museum in Hannover and practiced from 1926 to 1934 the activity of a Commissioner of Natural monuments in the province of Hanover.

Various animal species bear his name, including

  • Canthocamptus weigoldi
  • Oreolalax weigoldi
  • Parus weigoldi

Hugo Weigold was a member of the German Ornithologists' Society since 1909.

The Nature Conservation Foundation History administers the estate of the scientist Weigold in their archive. The estate comprises about one meters of shelf space and consists of ornithological documentation ( mapping material, manuscripts ), correspondence, photographs and drawings.

Works (excerpt)

  • Hugo Weigold: An urgent duty of the naturalist. Reprint edition. In 1923.
  • Hugo Weigold: The biogeography of Tibet and its foreshores. Saxon club ornithologists, Hohenstein- Ernstthal 2005, ISBN 3-9806583-6-8.
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