Rudolf Tancré ( December 24, 1842

Anklam Anklam (), formerly known as Tanglim and Wendenburg, is a town in the Western Pomerania region of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in north-eastern Germany. It is situated on the banks of the Peene river, just 8 km from its mouth in the , the western ...

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– 19 September 1934 Anklam) was a

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natural history dealer,

ornithologist Ornithology, from Ancient Greek ὄρνις (''órnis''), meaning "bird", and -logy from λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study", is a branch of zoology dedicated to the study of birds. Several aspects of ornithology differ from related discip ...

and

entomologist Entomology (from Ancient Greek ἔντομον (''éntomon''), meaning "insect", and -logy from λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study") is the branch of zoology that focuses on insects. Those who study entomology are known as entomologists. In ...

whose Tancré Trade Company in Anklam had employed the German collector brothers Rückbeil, who had made extensive collections of birds and insects while exploring the

Russian Far East The Russian Far East ( rus, Дальний Восток России, p=ˈdalʲnʲɪj vɐˈstok rɐˈsʲiɪ) is a region in North Asia. It is the easternmost part of Russia and the Asia, Asian continent, and is coextensive with the Far Easte ...

, and the East and the South of

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.The Rückbeil family had contact with

Grigory Grum-Grshimailo Grigory Yefimovich Grum-Grshimailo (, 1860–1936) was a Russian zoologist best known for his expeditions to Central Asia ( Pamir, Bukhara, Tianshan, Gansu, and Kukunor), western Mongolia and Tuva, and the Russian Far East. In literature his na ...

another source of expedition specimens for Tancré. Tancré obtained specimens from Eastern Europe as well as

Central Asia Central Asia is a region of Asia consisting of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. The countries as a group are also colloquially referred to as the "-stans" as all have names ending with the Persian language, Pers ...

. He traded with European museums and private collectors, for instance

Alexander Koenig Alexander Ferdinand Koenig (20 February 1858 – 16 July 1940) was a German natural history, naturalist and zoologist. Making use of the family wealth earned from the sugar business, he went on collection expeditions and founded what is now k ...

and the bird curators at

Tring Tring is a market town and civil parish in the Borough of Dacorum, Hertfordshire, England. It is situated in a gap passing through the Chiltern Hills, classed as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, from Central London. Tring is linked ...

Ernst Hartert Ernst Johann Otto Hartert (29 October 1859 – 11 November 1933) was a widely published German ornithologist. Life and career Hartert was born in the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg on 29 October 1859. In July 1891, he married the illustrat ...

and Karl Jordan. Insect collections were sold to various European museums and nowadays some of the collections are in the museums of Amsterdam, Bonn, Braunschweig and Linz and in the National Museum of "Grigore Antipan" in Bucharest . He named the butterfly ''

Limenitis homeyeri ''Limenitis homeyeri'' is a butterfly found in the East Palearctic that belongs to the browns family. Subspecies *''Limenitis homeyeri homeyeri'' Amur *''Limenitis homeyeri venata'' Leech, 892 Year 892 (Roman numerals, DCCCXCII) was a lea ...

'' for one of his customers

Alexander von Homeyer Alexander von Homeyer (19 January 1834, in Vorland, now a part of Splietsdorf – 14 July 1903, in Greifswald) was a German soldier and ornithologist. He was a cousin of Eugen Ferdinand von Homeyer, also an ornithologist. Homeyer joined the ...

. He cowrote the original description of ''

Perdix perdix The grey partridge (''Perdix perdix'') is a bird in the pheasant family Phasianidae of the order Galliformes, gallinaceous birds. The scientific name is the Latin for "partridge". Taxonomy The grey partridge formally described in 1758 by the Sw ...

'' ''robusta'' Homeyer and Tancré, 1883.Eugen Ferdinand von Homeyer, C.A. Tancre, (1883): Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Ornithologie Westsibiriens, namentlich der Altai-Gegend ''Mittheilungen des Ornithologischen Vereins in Wien'' 007: 81-92.
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Works

*Tancre, R dolf Das Steppenhuhn, '' Syrrhaptes paradoxus'', Pall., b'ei Anklam. Wien ''Ornith. Ver. Mitth.'', 12, 1888, 108–109. *Homeyer, E. F. Von, & Tancre, C. A. Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Ornithologie Westsibiriens, namentlich der Altai-Gegend. ''Mittheilungen des Ornithologischen Vereins in Wien'' 1883, pp. 81–92 NB C.A. not R.

References

Zobodat Angela Petrescu Bird collection of "Grigore Antipa" National Museum of Natural History, Bucharest Hausnann Collection ''Travaux du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle «Grigore Antipa»'' Volume 1:pp. 317–328
*Horn et al., 1990: ''Collectiones entomologicae''. Berlin
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