Bruno Geisler was a German

Germans

The Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe. The English term Germans has referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages....

 ornithologist.

In 1887 Bruno Geisler began collecting birds in Ceylon and Java

Java

Java is an island of Indonesia. With a population of 135 million , it is the world's most populous island, and one of the most densely populated regions in the world. It is home to 60% of Indonesia's population. The Indonesian capital city, Jakarta, is in west Java...

 with his brother Herbert. In 1890 they moved on to the then German colony New Guinea

New Guinea

New Guinea is the world's second largest island, after Greenland, covering a land area of 786,000 km2. Located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, it lies geographically to the east of the Malay Archipelago, with which it is sometimes included as part of a greater Indo-Australian Archipelago...

. Their bird specimens and some ethnographic material were mainly sold to the then zoological-ethnological-anthopological museum in Dresden (now Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde Dresden

Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde Dresden

The State Museum of Zoology in Dresden is a natural history museum that houses 10,000-50,000 specimens, including skeletons and large insect collections. Many are types. The collection suffered war damage and whilst catalogued the database is not computerized. Loans are possible and material can...

 and Museum of Ethnology Dresden

Museum of Ethnology Dresden

The Museum of Ethnology Dresden contains an ethnographic collection with more than 90,000 objects from all parts of the earth.The museum is housed in the Japanisches Palais, a Baroque building complex on the Elbe....

) and to the dealer Wilhelm Schlüter

Wilhelm Schlüter

Wilhelm Schlüter was a German natural history dealer.Wilhelm Schlüter was the proprietor of "das Naturwissenschaftliche Institut - Naturalien und Lehrmittelhandlung" in Hallean der Saale. He sold many important bird and insect collections to museums and private collections. He also supplied...

 in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt.In 1893 Bruno Geisler became a curator and taxidermist in the Dresden museum.

The bird skins collected by Bruno and Herbert were studied by Adolf Bernard Meyer

Adolf Bernard Meyer

Adolf Bernard Meyer was a German anthropologist, ornithologist and entomologist.-Biography:...

 then a professor at the Dresden museum. Bruno was also a bird illustrator.He became also well known for the bird plates in The birds of Celebes and the neighbouring islands by Adolf Meyer

Adolf Meyer

Adolf Meyer may refer to:*Adolf Bernard Meyer , German anthropologist and ornithologist*Adolf Meyer , Swiss psychiatrist*Adolf Meyer , German architect-See also:...

 and Lionel William Wiglesworth published in Berlin by R. Friedländer in 1898, Anton Reichenow

Anton Reichenow

Anton Reichenow was a German ornithologist.Reichenow was the son-in-law of Jean Cabanis, and worked at the Humboldt Museum from 1874 to 1921. He was an expert on African birds, making a collecting expedition to West Africa in 1872 and 1873, and writing Die Vögel Afrikas...

’s Die Vögel Afrikas Vols 1-3 published by J. Neuman in Neudamm between 1897 and 1905 and in the new Naumann's

Johann Friedrich Naumann

Johann Friedrich Naumann was a German scientist and editor.Naumann is regarded as the founder of scientific ornithology in Europe...

, Naturgeschichte der Vögel Mitteleuropas published in 1900-1905.

External links

• BDHL The birds of Celebes and the neighbouring islands