Rudolf Tancré ( December 24, 1842
Anklam
Anklam [], formerly known as Tanglim and Wendenburg, is a town in the Western Pomerania region of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is situated on the banks of the Peene river, just 8 km from its mouth in the ''Kleines Haff'', the western ...
,
Pomerania – 19 September 1934 Anklam) was a
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natural history dealer,
ornithologist
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and
entomologist
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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, and the East and the South of
Siberia.The Rückbeil family had contact with
Grigory Grum-Grshimailo
Grigory Yefimovich Grum-Grshimailo (russian: Григо́рий Ефи́мович Грумм-Гржима́йло, 1860–1936) was a Russian zoologist best known for his expeditions to Central Asia (Pamir, Bukhara, Tian-Shan, Kan-su, and Kuku ...
another source of expedition specimens for
Tancré.
Tancré obtained specimens from Eastern Europe as well as
Central Asia. He traded with European museums and private collectors, for instance
Alexander Koenig and the bird curators at
Tring 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 Hamburg, Germany on 29 October 1859. In July 1891, he married the illustrator Claudia Bernadine E ...
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'' 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'' ''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, Rdolf
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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
Biographies of the Entomologists of the World Steitor page with portrait
German lepidopterists
1934 deaths
1842 births
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