Oskar heinroth biography
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Oskar Heinroth
German zoologist
Oskar Heinroth | |
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| Born | (1871-03-01)1 March 1871 Mainz, Germany |
| Died | 31 May 1945(1945-05-31) (aged 74) Berlin, Germany |
| Known for | Applying methods of comparative morphology to animal behavior |
| Spouses | Magdalena Heinroth née Wiebe, Katharina Heinroth née Berger |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Pioneering ethologist |
| Institutions | Berlin Aquarium |
Oskar Heinroth (1 March 1871 – 31 May 1945) was a German biologist who was one of the first to apply the methods of comparative morphology to animal behavior, and was thus one of the founders of ethology. He worked, largely isolated from most other scientists of the period, at the Berlin Aquarium where he took care of fishes, reptiles and birds, especially waterfowl before he was murdered by Soviet occupying police agents shortly after WW2.
Biography
[edit]Heinroth was born in Mainz-Kastel. He studied medicine and graduated in 1895, but later studied zoology at Berlin while working at the Zoological Garden and at the Natural History Museum. He joined an expedition to the Bismarck Archipelago in 1900-1901 serving as a zoologist to Bruno Mencke, the South Seas expedition leader who was attacked and killed in an encounter with indigenous peoples whil
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The ethology and life history of birds: the forgotten contributions of Oskar, Magdalena and Katharina Heinroth
Introduction
In a rented apartment in the centre of Berlin, a Black Grouse male is displaying on the balcony; in the dining room a Goshawk is eating a Pheasant, and in the sitting room, a pair of European Nightjars is rearing their second brood of the year on a pig-skin rug. Such was everyday life in the Heinroth household. For over 28 years, between 1904and 1932, Oskar Heinroth (1871-1945 and his wife Magdalena (1883Magdalena ( -1932, lived cheek by jowl with almost every species of Central European bird, eventually describing and illustrating-in four heavy volumes-the development and behaviour of no less than 286 species.
As assistant director of the Berlin Zoo, Oskar Heinroth had unprecedented opportunities to observe birds and other animals at close range, both at work and at home. His perceptive comparisons of the courtship and other behaviours of ducks, geese and swans, made in the early 1900s, eventually provided the intellectual springboard for Konrad Lorenz to launch the study of ethology in the 1930s. Despite the success of ethology and the study of animal behaviour that it became, Lorenz not only superseded Oskar Heinroth's contribution to ethology,
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