Anton Reichenow (1847 - 1941) was a Germanornithologist. 1847 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... For the movie, see 1941 (film) 1941 (MCMXLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1941 calendar). ... Ornithology (from the Greek ornitha = chicken and logos = word/science) is the branch of biology concerned with the scientific study of birds. ...
Reichenow was the son-in-law of Jean Cabanis, and worked at the Humboldt Museum from 1874 to 1921. He was an expert on Africanbirds, making a collecting expedition to West Africa in 1872 and 1873, and writing Die Vogel Africas (1900-05). He also wrote Die Vogel der Bismarckinseln (1899). He was editor of the Journal für Ornithologie from 1894 to 1921. Jean Louis Cabanis. ... The Museum für Naturkunde (in English, the Museum of Natural History), widely known as the Humboldt Museum of Berlin, is the first national museum in the world, with a massive collection of more than 25 million zoological, paleontological, and minerological specimens, including more than ten thousand type specimens. ... Africa is the worlds second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia. ... Orders Many - see section below. ... Western Africa (UN subregion) Maghreb West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of the African continent. ... 1872 (MDCCCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... 1873 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calaber). ... 1894 (MDCCCXCIV) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...
A number of birds are named after him, including Reichenow's Woodpecker, Reichenow's Weaver and Reichenow's Firefinch.
Vogelbilder aus fernen Zonen was republished in the 1950s and represents an important contribution to the study of parrots.
AntonReichenow was a distinguished ornithologist and the prolific author of 288 published books and papers mainly on his specialty, Africanbirds.
Reichenow described hundreds of new species and subspecies, among them some parrots, reclassified a number of others that he felt had been improperly named, and had seven species named for him.
Reichenow was active for almost 50 years and made a notable contribution to ornithological studies in the entire European continent at the turn of the 20th century.
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