Ernst Johann Otto Hartert (29 October 1859 – 11 November 1933) was a widely published German ornithologist.

Life and career

Hartert was born in

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, Germany on 29 October 1859. In July 1891, he married the illustrator Claudia Bernadine Elisabeth Hartert in

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, Germany, with whom he had a son named Joachim Karl (Charles) Hartert, (1893–1916), who was killed as an English soldier on the Somme. Ernst-Hartert-1859-1933

Together with his wife, he was the first to describe the blue-tailed Buffon hummingbird subspecies (''Chalybura buffonii intermedia'' Hartert, E & Hartert, C, 1894). The article ''On a collection of Humming Birds from Ecuador and Mexico'' appears to be their only joint publication. Hartert was employed by

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as ornithological

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of Rothshild's private Natural History Museum at Tring, in England from 1892 to 1929. Hartert published the quarterly museum periodical ''

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'' (1894–39) with Rothschild, and the ''Hand-List of British Birds'' (1912) with Francis Charles Robert Jourdain,

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and Harry Forbes Witherby. He wrote ''Die Vögel der paläarktischen Fauna'' (1910–22) and travelled in

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, and

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on behalf of his employer. Hartert Ernst 1

In 1930, Hartert retired to

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, where he died in 1933. Hartert had been a mentor to

Erwin Stresemann Erwin Friedrich Theodor Stresemann (22 November 1889, in Dresden – 20 November 1972, in East Berlin) was a German naturalist and ornithologist. Stresemann was an ornithologist of extensive breadth who compiled one of the first and most compr ...

, whose cremated remains were interred at Hartert's grave in 1972.

Works

Among the written publications of Ernst Hartert are:A complete list of Hartert's publications is contained in Hartert's obituary, . *(1891). ''Katalog der Vogelsammlung im Museum der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Frankfurt am Main''. *(1897). ''Podargidae, Caprimulgidae und Macropterygidae''. *(1897). ''Das Tierreich''. *(1900). ''Trochilidae''. *(1902). ''Aus den Wanderjahren eines Naturforschers: Reisen und Forschungen in Afrika, Asien und Amerika, nebst daran anknüpfenden, meist ornithologischen Studien''. *(1903). ''Ueber die Pipriden-Gattung Masius Bp.'' *(1910–1922). ''Die Vögel der paläarktischen Fauna: Systematische Übersicht der in Europa, Nord-asien und der Mittelmeerregion vorkommenden Vögel''. Three volumes. * *(1920). ''Die Vögel Europas''.

Eponyms

A species of lizard, '' Hemiphyllodactylus harterti'', and 12 birds are named in his honor.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . ("Hartert", p. 117).

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