Paul Robert Kollibay (4 July 1863 – 5 November 1919) was a German lawyer and
ornithologist. He specialised in the birds of Upper Silesia and his collection of bird skins is held at the museum of the
University of Wroclaw
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Born in
Gorzów Śląski
Gorzów Śląski (german: Landsberg in Oberschlesien) is a town in Olesno County, Opole Voivodeship, Poland, with 2,452 inhabitants (2019).
Notable people
* Nathanael Pringsheim (1823–1894), Jewish German botanist
*Herbert Weichmann
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, then called Landsberg, Upper Silesia, Kollibay was the son of a district judge. He went to the local elementary school and then the Gymnasium in
Neustadt where he met
Friedrich Kutter (1834–1891) who influenced his interests in birds. He went to Breslau to study law and completed school in 1885. Kollibay became a notary in 1897, a Judicial Councillor in 1910, and a board member of the Bar association in 1917.
His work on birds began in 1879, with studies of the species in the
Prussian Province of Silesia which was published in 1906 with supplements in 1909 and later updated by Anton Reichenow. He became a specialist on the swifts of the region and was honoured in a subspecies ''Apus apus kollibayi'' described by
Victor von Tschusi which is now considered synonymous to the nominate form. He was a member of the
German Ornithological Society and the
British Ornithologists' Union. A few subspecies ''Carduelis carduelis paropanisi'', ''Galerida cristata subtaurica'', ''Pisorhina leucotis granti'' were described by Kollibay. Kollibay's collection of 3200 bird skins was purchased by the zoological museum of Breslau University but many specimens were destroyed during the Second World War.
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People from Olesno County
German ornithologists
1863 births
1919 deaths
20th-century German lawyers