Alfred Louis Laubmann (20 October 1886 - 18 October 1965) was a German zoologist and ornithologist who worked as curator at the

Bavarian State Collection of Zoology The Bavarian State Collection of Zoology () or ZSM is a major German research institution for zoological systematics in Munich. It has over 20 million zoological specimens. It is one of the largest natural history collections in the world. The se ...

in Munich. He worked on avian systematics and was a proponent of extending the trinomial system of subspecies into a quadrinomial system.Laubmann, A. 1921. Die quaternäre Nomenclatur und ihre Anwendung in der Ornithologie. Jaarber. Club Nederl. Vogelk. 11:40-50. Laubmann was born into the merchant family of Eugen Laubmann and Ida. He studied at the local elementary school in

Kaufbeuren Kaufbeuren (; Bavarian language, Bavarian: ''Kaufbeiren'') is an independent city, independent town in the ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Swabia (Bavaria), Swabia, Bavaria. The town is an enclave within the Districts of Germany, district of Ostallgäu. ...

before studying at the Wilhelms gymnasium in Munich. He then moved in 1906 to

Ludwig-Maximilians University The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich, LMU or LMU Munich; ) is a public research university in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. Originally established as the University of Ingolstadt in 1472 by Duke Ludwig IX of Bav ...

in Munich to study zoology. He worked on his doctorate under

Richard von Hertwig Richard Wilhelm Karl Theodor Ritter von Hertwig (23 September 1850 in Friedberg, Hesse – 3 October 1937 in Schlederloh, Bavaria), also Richard Hertwig or Richard von Hertwig, was a German zoologist and professor of 50 years, notable as the fi ...

, working on sensory organs in the skin of crayfish. In 1910 he worked at the Roscoff Marine Station. In 1911 he joined the Zoological Museum in Munich to work on the skins collected by Gottfried Merzbacher (1834-1926) from the

Tian Shan The Tian Shan, also known as the Tengri Tagh or Tengir-Too, meaning the "Mountains of God/Heaven", is a large system of mountain ranges in Central Asia. The highest peak is Jengish Chokusu at high and located in Kyrgyzstan. Its lowest point is ...

region. He worked under Carl Hellmayr and was a colleague of

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 comprehe ...

. Hellmayr moved to the United States in 1922 which led to Laubmann being promoted to head. He became a curator in 1926. He retired in 1951 and was succeeded by Gerd Diesselhorst. He was a member of the Ornithological Society of Bavaria from 1907 and served as its secretary from 1913 to 1921 and from 1922 as its Secretary General as well as acting editor and publisher of its journal. He married Elisabeth Mayer in 1912. Laubmann described many taxa including the species '' Alcedo hercules'' and '' Otocichla mupinensis''. He is also commemorated in the names of several subspecies.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Laubmann, Alfred German ornithologists 1886 births 1965 deaths