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Ernst Johann Otto Hartert (29 October 1859 – 11 November 1933) was a widely published
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Life and career

Hartert was born in
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, Germany on 29 October 1859. In July 1891, he married the illustrator Claudia Bernadine Elisabeth Hartert in
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, Germany, with whom he had a son named Joachim Karl (Charles) Hartert, (1893–1916), who was killed as an English soldier on the Somme. Together with his wife, he was the first to describe the blue-tailed Buffon hummingbird subspecies (''Chalybura buffonii intermedia'' Hartert, E & Hartert, C, 1894). The article ''On a collection of Humming Birds from Ecuador and Mexico'' appears to be their only joint publication. Hartert was employed by
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as ornithological
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of Rothshild's private Natural History Museum at Tring, in England from 1892 to 1929. Hartert
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ed the quarterly museum periodical ''
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'' (1894–39) with Rothschild, and the ''Hand-List of British Birds'' (1912) with Francis Charles Robert Jourdain, Norman Frederick Ticehurst and Harry Forbes Witherby. He wrote ''Die Vögel der paläarktischen Fauna'' (1910–22) and travelled in
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on behalf of his employer. In 1930, Hartert retired to
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, where he died in 1933. Hartert had been a mentor to
Erwin Stresemann Erwin Friedrich Theodor Stresemann (22 November 1889, in Dresden – 20 November 1972, in East Berlin) was a German naturalist and ornithologist. Stresemann was an ornithologist of extensive breadth who compiled one of the first and most compreh ...
, whose cremated remains were interred at Hartert's grave in 1972.


Works

Among the written publications of Ernst Hartert are:A complete list of Hartert's publications is contained in Hartert's obituary, . *(1891). ''Katalog der Vogelsammlung im Museum der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Frankfurt am Main''. *(1897). ''Podargidae, Caprimulgidae und Macropterygidae''. *(1897). ''Das Tierreich''. *(1900). ''Trochilidae''. *(1902). ''Aus den Wanderjahren eines Naturforschers: Reisen und Forschungen in Afrika, Asien und Amerika, nebst daran anknüpfenden, meist ornithologischen Studien''. *(1903). ''Ueber die Pipriden-Gattung Masius Bp.'' *(1910–1922). ''Die Vögel der paläarktischen Fauna: Systematische Übersicht der in Europa, Nord-asien und der Mittelmeerregion vorkommenden Vögel''. Three volumes. * *(1920). ''Die Vögel Europas''.


Eponyms

A species of lizard, '' Hemiphyllodactylus harterti'', and 12 birds are named in his honor.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . ("Hartert", p. 117).


See also

* :Taxa named by Ernst Hartert


References


Sources

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Further reading

* Witherby, H.F. (1933). "Ernst Johann Otto Hartert". In ''Nature'', v. 123, no. 3344, 2 Dec. 1933, p. 846–7. * Stresemann E (1967). "Hartert, Ernst Johann Otto", p. 711. ''In'': ''Neue Deutsche Biographie'', Volume 7. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. 784 pp. (in German).


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