Otto Finsch ( German: Otto Finsch ; August 8, 1839 , Warmbrunn (today Jelenia Gora ), Silesia - January 31, 1917 , Braunschweig ) - German ethnologist , bird watcher and explorer, who became famous primarily thanks to preparations for the capture of Germany by the colony of New Guinea . The harbor and coast in Papua New Guinea are named after him.
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| Date of Birth | August 8, 1839 |
| Place of Birth | Warmbrunn, (now Jelenia Gora ) |
| Date of death | January 31, 1917 (aged 77) |
| A place of death | Braunschweig |
| A country | German Union, German Empire |
| Scientific field | Ethnology , Ornithology |
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The researcher who described a number of zoological taxa . The names of these taxa (to indicate authorship) are accompanied by the designation “ Finsch ” . |
Content
- 1 life
- 1.1 Bremen period
- 1.2 Pacific Islands
- 1.3 Leiden and Braunschweig
- 2 Honors
- 3 notes
- 4 Literature
- 5 Links
Life
Finsch was born in Silesia. My father owned a glass lapidary and ran a drawing school. He was to become a businessman at the request of his father. Having not finished school, at the age of 19 he made the first trips to Bulgaria and Hungary to study the bird world there. In 1861, he received an assistant at the Netherlands Imperial Museum of Natural History in Leiden .
Bremen period
With the mediation of the Bremen doctor and bird expert Hartmann, in 1864 Finsch arrived in Bremen . In 1864, at the age of 25, he became the curator of the natural science and ethnological collections of the Bremen Museum, and from 1866 to 1878 he headed the new museum of ethnography. In 1868, he became an Honorary Doctor of the University of Bonn . [1] In 1872 he traveled to North America, and in 1873 to Lapland . Accompanied by zoologist Alfred Brehm and Count Waldburg-Zeil, on behalf of the Bremen Geographical Society in 1876, Finsch undertook an expedition to Western Siberia , Turkestan and north-west China . In Bremen and Delmenhorst since 1885, he was also a private scientist.
Pacific Islands
Over time, in the Bremen Museum Finsch with the support of the Foundation. Humboldt took up the southern islands of the Pacific Ocean, which he traveled from 1879 to 1882. As an agent of the private New Guinea consortium of Hamburg (later renamed the New Guinea company) owned by Adolf von Hansemann, he traveled in 1884-1885 with captain Eduard Dallmann on several trips from Myoko Island and discovered almost the entire northern coast of New Guinea Sepik River. Finsch also entered into land acquisition agreements. In 1884 , calling himself the brother of N. N. Miklouho-Maclay , he hoisted the German flag in the village of Bongu , on the Maclay Coast . Then, on the Samoa steamer, he goes all the way to the Huon Bay, buying land and raising the German flag. In 1885, the northern half of the island was founded under the name Kaiser Wilhelm Land - the “guarded area” of the New Guinea company with management located in Finsha harbor. For another 2 years he was a consultant to New Guinea.
Leiden and Braunschweig
Finsch was in 1898 the curator of the museum in Leiden, and in 1904 the head of the Ethnographic Department of the City Museum in Braunschweig. During World War I, he replaced the director of the museum, Franz Fuse. In 1910, he received a professorship.
Honors
- Several species of parrots bear his name, including arainting Finsch ( Aratinga finschi ), lilac- headed amazon ( Amazona finschi ), woodpecker Finsha ( Micropsitta finschii ), black-necked stove ( Oenanthe finschii ).
- The extinct New Zealand maned duck ( Chenonetta finschi ) also bears his name.
- His name was given to the harbor on the northeast coast of the province of Morobe, Papua New Guinea, the port city of Finshafen on the shores of the Solomon Sea , northeast of Hewon Bay and the coast of Finsha, located between the Humboldt Bay and the mouth of Sepica (the former river of Empress Augusta).
- In the Bremen district, Walle (Bremen) , and also in Braunschweig the streets are named Finsch.
Notes
- ↑ Travel to Samoa . World Digital Library (1888). Date of treatment November 5, 2013.
Literature
- Heinrich Abel: Finsch, Otto. Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 5. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, S. 163 f.
- Finsh O. Journey to Western Siberia : Fig. In the text / O. Finsch and A. Bram. - Moscow: Type. M.N. Lavrova and Co., 1882
Links
- Adelung N.N. Finsch, Otto // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.