August von Pelzeln

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August von Pelzeln.

August von Pelzeln (10 May 1825, Prague – 2 September 1891) was an Austrian ornithologist. He was a grandson to novelist Karoline Pichler (1769-1843). [1]

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He studied at the University of Vienna, later working as an assistant under helminthologist Karl Moriz Diesing (1800-1867) in the Hof-Naturalien-Cabinet (from 1851). In 1857 he acquired curatorial duties formerly held by Johann Jakob Heckel (1790-1857), [1] and subsequently became in charge of the bird (1857) and mammal (1869) collections. [2] He worked on the birds collected by Johann Natterer in Brazil (343 species). [3]

He was forced to retire from the museum due to ill health, and died at Oberdöbling near Vienna.

Some birds described by Pelzeln are the orange-breasted thornbird, the spot-winged antbird, the red-legged tinamou, the white-throated tinamou, the short-billed leaftosser, the yellow-margined flatbill and the New Zealand rockwren.

His name is associated with Pelzeln's tody-tyrant (Hemitriccus inornatus). [4] Gustav Hartlaub (1814-1900) named the Madagascar grebe (Tachybaptus pelzelnii) in his honor; [5] Otto Finsch (1839-1917) named the Pohnpei starling (Aplonis pelzelni) after Pelzeln. [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Band 7. Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 1978, ISBN   3-7001-0187-2, S. 401 f
  2. ↑ Annalen des k. k. naturhistorischen Hofmuseums Archived October 29, 2013, at the Wayback Machine Jahresbericht für 1888
  3. ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (18 November 2009). The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 314. ISBN   9780801895333.
  4. ↑ Google Books The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals by Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson
  5. ↑ AviBase Tachybaptus pelzelnii
  6. ↑ Pohnpei Starling - Pictures and facts
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