Paul Bartsch

Paul Bartsch ( born August 14, 1871 in Tuntschendorf, Silesia, † April 24, 1960 in McLean, Virginia) was an American zoologist German origin, was known particularly as malacologist and ornithologist.

Life

At the age of ten years, Paul Bartsch emigrated with his family to the United States and was first settled in Missouri and later in Iowa. Bartsch started early, taking an interest in ornithology. He studied at Iowa State University where he received a Bachelor of Sciences in 1896, 1899 and 1905 Master of Science was awarded his doctorate.

From 1907 to 1908 Bartsch took part in the expedition to the Philippines as a scientist at the Smithsonian Institution on board the Albatross. Later, he led the research, which dealt on behalf of the Smithsonian Institution and Carnegie Institution of Washington with the hatching of worm eggs in the Florida Keys.

1912 Bartsch began a series of investigations, which lasted until 1933, and, for the exploration of the Gulf of California, the Bahamas, western Mexico, Florida, Cuba, Haiti, Santo Domingo, Puerto Rico, all West Indian islands between Puerto Rico and Trinidad and the St. Lawrence River contributed.

In Washington, D.C. Bartsch taught from 1899 to 1936 Natural History at Howard University, and from 1900 to 1945 Zoology at the George Washington University. From this he has also an honorary doctorate was awarded in 1937. 1946 could be Bartsch emeritus.

At the same time, he oversaw from 1914 to 1946, the Department of Mollusks at the National Museum of Natural History as a curator. He took 1916 as deputy of the Smithsonian Institution at the second Pan-American Scientific Congress in Washington, DC and 1920 as a deputy to the first Panpazifischen Science Congress in Honolulu, Hawaii, in part. In 1920 he presented to the Chemical Warfare Service of the United States Army a toxic gas detector available. Bartsch initiated in 1933, the Johnson - Smithsonian Deep Sea Expedition to Puerto Rico and in 1937, the Smithsonian - Roebling research expedition. He was the first scientist after John James Audubon, who dealt with the bird ringing.

He was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the Washington Academy of Sciences, the Biological Society of Washington, the American Ornithologists ' Union, the American Association of Anatomists, American Society of Zoologists, the American Genetic Association, the Malacologists Association of Great Britain and Ireland, American Malacological Society of Sigma Xi and. In 1913 he was admitted to the Washington Biologists ' Field Club, and in 1949 an honorary member.

After his retirement of the private life Bartsch dedicated his collection of native plants on his property at Pohick, Virginia. After his death he was in Washington, D.C. buried.

Publications (excerpt)

  • Paul Bartsch: Experiments in the breeding of cerium ion, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1920
  • John Treadwell Nichols, Paul Bartsch: Fishes and shells of the Pacific world, The Macmillan Company, 1945
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