Carlo von Erlanger (5 September 1872 – 4 September 1904) was a German

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and explorer born in

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. He was a cousin to

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Rodolphe d'Erlanger (1872-1932). ''(See: Erlanger family tree).'' He studied ornithology at the

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, and performed wildlife studies in the

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n desert from 1893 to 1897. On his return to Europe he continued his studies at

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and

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. In 1900 and 1901 with

Oscar Rudolph Neumann Oscar Rudolph Neumann (3 September 1867 in Berlin – 17 May 1946 in Chicago) was a German ornithologist and naturalist who explored and collected specimens in Africa. He fled via Cuba and settled in the United States to escape Nazi persecutio ...

, he went to East Africa (what is now Ethiopia and Somalia) and investigated and collected many thousands of insect and avian specimens. Erlanger died in an automobile accident in

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on 4 September 1904, one day shy of his 32nd birthday. Grab-Carlo-von-Erlanger

Erlanger is credited with naming 40 new ornithological

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, and has several zoological species named after him, such as: * Erlanger's lark, ''Calandrella erlangeri'' () *'' Ptychadena erlangeri'' (), an Ethiopian frog *''

Lamprophis erlangeri ''Bofa erlangeri'', also known commonly as the Ethiopian house snake, is a species of snake in the family Lamprophiidae. The species is endemic to Ethiopia. Taxonomy ''B. erlangeri'' is the only species in the genus ''Bofa''. Etymology The ...

'' , an Ethiopian snake * Erlanger’s gazelle, ''Gazella erlangeri'' () His name is also associated with the subspecies ''

Madoqua saltiana Salt's dik-dik (''Madoqua saltiana'') is a small antelope found in semidesert, bushland, and thickets in the Horn of Africa, but marginally also in northern Kenya and eastern Sudan. It is named after Henry Salt, who was the first European to ack ...

erlangeri'' Neumann, 1905.

Written works

*''Eine ornithologische Forschungsreise durch Tunesien'' (1898) *''Meine Reise durch Sud-Schoa, Galla und die Somal-Lander'' (1902) *''Forschungsreise durch Sud-Schoa, Galla und die Somali-lander. Beitrage zur vogelfauna Nordostafrikas, mit besonderer berucksichtigung der zoogeographie''

References

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