Meinertzhagen
Meinertzhagen may refer to: People * Annie Meinertzhagen (1889–1928), British ornithologist * Ian Meinertzhagen (born 1944), Canadian neurobiologist * Louis Meinertzhagen (1887–1941), British philatelist * Richard Meinertzhagen (1878–1967), British Army officer and ornithologist Places * Meinerzhagen Meinerzhagen (sometimes spelled Meinertzhagen; ) is a town in the Märkischer Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Geography Meinerzhagen is located in the hills of the Sauerland. The highest elevation is the Nordhelle with 652 m above sea l ...

Richard Meinertzhagen
Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen, CBE, DSO (3 March 1878 – 17 June 1967) was a British soldier, intelligence officer, and ornithologist. He had a decorated military career spanning Africa and the Middle East. He was credited with creating and executing the Haversack Ruse in October 1917, during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of the First World War, but his participation in this matter has since been refuted. While early biographies lionized Meinertzhagen as a master of military strategy and espionage, later works such as ''The Meinertzhagen Mystery'' present him as a fraud for fabricating stories of his feats and speculated he murdered his wife (in addition to extra-judicial killings while in the colonial service). The discovery of stolen museum bird specimens resubmitted as original discoveries has raised serious doubts on the veracity of many of his ornithological records. Background and youth Meinertzhagen was born into a wealthy, socially connected British family. His f ...
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Annie Meinertzhagen
Annie Meinertzhagen (2 June 1889 – 6 July 1928) was a Scottish ornithologist who contributed to studies on British birds, most significantly the moulting patterns in ducks and waders. She married fellow ornithologist Richard Meinertzhagen in 1921 and died from a gunshot fired under suspicious circumstances. Early years Born Anne Constance Jackson, her parents were Major Randle Jackson and Emily V. Baxter of Swordale, a village in eastern Ross-shire in the Scottish Highlands. Mrs Jackson was the daughter of Edward Baxter of Kincaldrum, Angus. Anne developed an early interest in natural history, especially in birds. With her younger sister Dorothy, who was to become an entomologist, she studied zoology for three years at the Imperial College of Science in London under Ernest MacBride. In 1915, she published a paper with MacBride in the Proceedings of the Royal Society on the inheritance of colour in the stick insect ''Carausius morosus''. Much of her early ornithological work ...
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Ian Meinertzhagen
Ian Anthony Meinertzhagen (born 1944, in Kent, United Kingdom) is a Canadian neurobiologist, a University Research Professor at Dalhousie University, in Halifax, Nova Scotia and Senior Fellow at the Janelia Research Campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Ashburn, Virginia. He is a graduate of the Universities of Aberdeen (BSc) and St. Andrews (PhD, DSc) and undertook postdoctoral work at the Australian National University and Harvard University. His research has pioneered studies on simple nervous systems of invertebrate species, especially the ''Drosophila'' visual system and the diminutive chordate nervous system of the ascidian tadpole larva,. Publications His most cited publications are: *R.Steven Stowers, Laura J. Megeath, Jolanta Górska-Andrzejak, Ian A. Meinertzhagen, Thomas L. Schwarz "Axonal Transport of Mitochondria to Synapses Depends on Milton, a Novel Drosophila Protein" ''Nature'' Volume 36, Issue 6, p1063–1077, 19 December 2002. According to Googl ...
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Louis Meinertzhagen
Louis Ernest Meinertzhagen (18 September 1887 – 9 November 1941) was a British philatelist who signed the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 1932. Meinertzhagen was an expert on the early stamps of France."The Brighton (and Hove) Congress" by Stanley Phillips in ''Gibbons Stamp Monthly ''Gibbons Stamp Monthly'' (GSM) is a leading British philatelic magazine which can trace its roots back to 1890. GSM is published by the famous stamps and collectables firm of Stanley Gibbons and each issue includes updates to their various catalo ...'', Vol. V., No. 10, 1 July 1932, p. 1. References Signatories to the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists 1887 births 1941 deaths British philatelists Philately of France {{Philatelist-stub ...
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