August von Pelzeln (10 May 1825,

Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...

– 2 September 1891 in

Oberdöbling Oberdöbling (Central Bavarian: ''Obadöbling'') was an independent municipality until 1892 and is today a part of Döbling, the 19th district of Vienna. It is also one of the 89 Katastralgemeinden. Geography Oberdöbling lies in the south of ...

) was an

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

ornithologist Ornithology is a branch of zoology that concerns the "methodological study and consequent knowledge of birds with all that relates to them." Several aspects of ornithology differ from related disciplines, due partly to the high visibility and th ...

. He was a grandson to novelist

Karoline Pichler Caroline Pichler, also spelled Karoline, (7 September 1769 – 9 July 1843) was an Austrian historical novelist. Life She was born in Vienna to Hofrat Franz Sales von Greiner (1730–1798) and his wife Charlotte, née Hieronymus (1739–1815). ...

(1769-1843). Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950 (ÖBL).
Band 7. Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 1978, , S. 401 f He studied at the

University of Vienna The University of Vienna (german: Universität Wien) is a public research university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world. With its long and rich histor ...

, later working as an assistant under

helminthologist Helminthology is the study of parasitic worms (helminths). The field studies the Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy of helminths and their effects on their host (biology), hosts. The origin of the first compound of the word is the Greek ''wikt:ἕλ� ...

Karl Moriz Diesing Karl (Carl) Moriz (Moritz) Diesing (16 June 1800, in Krakow – 10 January 1867, in Vienna) was an Austrian naturalist and zoologist, specializing in the study of helminthology. He studied medicine at the University of Vienna, earning his doctor ...

(1800-1867) in the '' Hof-Naturalien-Cabinet'' (from 1851). In 1857 he acquired

curator A curator (from la, cura, meaning "to take care") is a manager or overseer. When working with cultural organizations, a curator is typically a "collections curator" or an "exhibitions curator", and has multifaceted tasks dependent on the parti ...

ial duties formerly held by

Johann Jakob Heckel Johann Jakob Heckel (23 January 1790 – 1 March 1857) was an Austrian taxidermist, zoologist, and ichthyologist from Mannheim in the Electoral Palatinate. Life Though not a formally trained biologist, he worked his way up through the ranks to ev ...

(1790-1857), and subsequently became in charge of the

bird Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweigh ...

(1857) and

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(1869) collections. He worked on the birds collected by

Johann Natterer Johann Natterer (9 November 1787 – 17 June 1843) was an Austrian natural history, naturalist and List of explorers, explorer. Family and early life Johann Natterer was born on 9 November 1787, the son of the animal-zoologist Joseph Natter ...

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(343 species). He was forced to retire from the museum due to ill health, and died at

near Vienna. Some birds described by Pelzeln are the orange-breasted thornbird, the spot-winged antbird, the

red-legged tinamou The red-legged tinamou or red-footed tinamou, (''Crypturellus erythropus'') is a ground-dwelling bird found in the tropics and lower subtropics of northern South America.Clements, J (2007) Description The red-legged tinamou is superficially sim ...

, the

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, the short-billed leaftosser, the yellow-margined flatbill and the New Zealand rockwren. His name is associated with

Pelzeln's tody-tyrant Pelzeln's tody-tyrant (''Hemitriccus inornatus'') is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae. It is endemic to Brazil. Its natural habitat In ecology, the term habitat summarises the array of resources, physical and biotic factors that ...

(''Hemitriccus inornatus'').

Gustav Hartlaub Karel Johan Gustav Hartlaub (8 November 1814 – 29 November 1900) was a German physician and ornithologist. Hartlaub was born in Bremen, and studied at Bonn and Berlin before graduating in medicine at Göttingen. In 1840, he began to study and co ...

(1814-1900) named the Madagascar grebe (''Tachybaptus pelzelnii'') in his honor;

Otto Finsch Friedrich Hermann Otto Finsch (8 August 1839, Warmbrunn – 31 January 1917, Braunschweig) was a German ethnographer, natural history, naturalist and colonial explorer. He is known for a two-volume monograph on the parrots of the world which earned ...

(1839-1917) named the Pohnpei starling (''Aplonis pelzelni'') after Pelzeln.Pohnpei Starling - Pictures and facts
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Works

* ''Bemerkungen gegen Darwin's Theorie vom Ursprung der Spezies''. Vienna: A. Pichler Witwe & Sohn (1861). * ''Zur Ornithologie Brasiliens, Resultate von Johann Natterers Reisen in den Jahren 1817 bis 1835'', Johann Natterer, Wien, A. Pichler's Witwe & Sohn (1868- 1870 3 volumes)
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* ''Beiträge zur Ornithologie Südafrikas'' (1882) - Contributions to the ornithology of

southern Africa Southern Africa is the southernmost subregion of the African continent, south of the Congo and Tanzania. The physical location is the large part of Africa to the south of the extensive Congo River basin. Southern Africa is home to a number of ...

. * Many papers in "Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien" (usually abbreviated Sitz.K.Akad.Wiss.Wien).

References

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(publications by August von Pelzeln) {{DEFAULTSORT:Pelzeln, August von Austrian untitled nobility Austrian ornithologists 1825 births 1891 deaths Scientists from Prague University of Vienna alumni Austrian civil servants Members of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina