Josef Seilern

Josef Graf von rope-makers and Aspangbahn ( born November 25, 1883 on Castle Lešná in Zlín, Moravia; † August 18, 1939 ibid ), sometimes known simply as Josef rope-makers, was an Austrian ornithologist and Oologe.

Life

Rope-makers was the owner of the goods Lukov and Kralic and the hunting lodge in Lower Austria Litschau. After attending school in Kalksburg and Kremsier he studied from 1907 to 1908 Agriculture at Hohenheim and 1909 in Munich. Even as a child he collected on the family property eggs and nests, and, due to his visits in his father's hunting lodge on Lake Neusiedl, he was also familiar with the avifauna of the lake. After the death of Maximilian Kuschel (1851-1909) was prompted Josef Graf von rope-makers and Aspangbahn of Adolph Nehrkorn to acquire 9,000 eggs from Kuschels second collection. Seilern was primarily interested in the Neotropical avifauna. In conjunction with the Bavarian State Collections in Munich, he sent collectors in various regions of South America. The results of these expeditions he published partly in collaboration with his friend Carl Eduard Hellmayr. In 1911 he became a member of the German Ornithologists' Society. Rope-makers made ​​several trips. The first led him to Corsica and Svalbard, a further 1909 to Japan and from 1929 he participated in two world tours. Besides its own rich yield Seilerns main taxidermist Richard Homberg brought bellows and eggs from his expeditions to Mallorca, Albania and Rhodes with and contributed significantly to the increase in the collection at Schloss Lešná at. 1939 had rope-makers with 42,000 eggs of 3,200 species and 25,000 bellows one of the largest private collections in Europe. She came from the Nearctic, the Palearctic and the Neotropics and included in particular hummingbirds or newly discovered taxa. Not less extensive was the exhibition of the domestic bird fauna, which was housed in a separate building and open to the public. In his palace garden he bred pheasants, various species of deer and emus. 1986 Seilerns collection from the Natural History Museum Vienna was purchased. As an author published Seilern few journals, including the "Contributions to the ornithology of Venezuela " and "Notes on the birds of southeast Peru ." Furthermore, Josef Graf Seilern described along with some subspecies the scarlet head Barbet ( Eubucco tucinkae ) and the black-haired - Ameisenvogel ( Percnostola lophotes ).

Dedikationennamen and honors

1917 Ernst Hartert honored and Arthur Thomas Goodson rope-makers in the epithet of the subspecies Dendrocolaptes Picumnus seilerni the dark beak tree climber ( Dendrocolaptes Picumnus ). In Litschau a street is named after him.