Johannes Thienemann
John Thienemann ( born November 12, 1863 in Gangloffsömmern, Thuringia, † April 12, 1938 in Rossitten, East Prussia ) was a German ornithologist, founder of the Ornithological Rossitten, the first bird observatory in the world.
Life and work
Thienemann John was the son of Pastor Wilhelm August Thienemann and grandson of Pastor Georg August Thienemann whose names already had a good reputation in the German ornithology. Especially with the latter John was familiar with the bird world. He went to high school in special Hausen and Zeitz. After graduation he studied stored there according to the family tradition since 1885 theology in Leipzig and Halle / Saale. After the Second State Examination in Theology Magdeburg 1894 Thienemann went into the teaching profession, in 1895 he became head of a higher private school in Osterwieck am Harz. In 1896 he met while on holiday Rossitten on the Curonian Spit know. From 1899 Thienemann was tutor, most recently at landowner Adolf Hoffmann in Rossitten.
Henceforth Thienemann devoted his research to the migration, where he reached for Ornithology significant and valid results until today. Among other things, he led - according to the procedure of the Danish ornithologists Mortensen - the systematic ringing of migratory birds as a fundamental technique for the study of migratory behavior of migratory birds a. The popularly known as the " Bird Professor " and popular scientists Established in 1901 in Rossitten ( East Prussia, today Rybatschi / Russia) on the Curonian Spit, the first ornithological research station in the world, the Ornithological Rossitten. This standing among scientists in the highest esteem Ornithological became world famous by Thienemanns extensive publications and reports. From 1901 he studied concomitantly in Königsberg ( Prussia) Zoology and in 1906 Dr. phil. doctorate. 1910 Thienemann associate professor at the Albertus University of Königsberg. The Ornithological Rossitten with the field station built in 1908 elms Horst was in 1923 by the German Ornithological Society of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of Sciences. Even in retirement from 1929 remained Thienemann Rossitten faithful and died there in 1938 on his property. The end of his life's work, he no longer had to experience. The Ornithological Rossitten was evacuated and closed as a result of the course of the Second World War in 1944.
In 1946 the Ornithological Radolfzell succeed the waiting Rossitten. On the original site, Soviet researchers took the bird observatory, if it still exists on a smaller scale again.
After the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg has painted as a support organization due to the poor economic situation, all grants, research in large part by donations from the German Heinz Sielmann Foundation and the German Federal Environmental Foundation is financed.
The facilities of the German Ornithological no longer exist, except for the former museum building from 1931 (now joinery, in reduced Architecture ) near the Church. The house of Thienemann in today's ul. Pobedy, direction Lagoon, adjacent to the present Biological Station ( former spa ), there are still. It is heavily modified by several annexes. A bilingual lettered wooden sign on the building points to the previous owner and his meaning: " In this house lived the famous ... ... German ornithologist ... Thienemann ... the founder of the Ornithological Rossitten ". The grave of Thienemann on the forest cemetery of Rossitten, which had been devastated by the war is restored.
Thienemann married in 1901 Clara Hedwig Hoffmann. The son of Hans -Georg Thienemann until 1945 last director of the Königsberg Tiergarten and from 1946 to 1965 director of the zoo in Duisburg. Duisburg in 1951 to sponsor the extinguished Königsberg.
John Thienemann is listed on the blackboard Mainstream scholars of the University of Königsberg, which was unveiled in 2012 in Königsberg Cathedral.
Writings
- John Thienemann: Rossitten. Three decades on the Curonian Spit. Publisher J. Neumann, Neudamm 1938