Ernst Johann Otto Hartert (October 29, 1859–November 11, 1933) was a German ornithologist. Hartert was born in Hamburg

Hamburg

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. He was employed by Lionel Walter Rothschild as ornithological curator

Curator

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 of his private museum

Museum

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 at Tring

Tring

Tring is a small market town and also a civil parish in the Chiltern Hills in Hertfordshire, England. Situated north-west of London and linked to London by the old Roman road of Akeman Street, by the modern A41, by the Grand Union Canal and by rail lines to Euston Station, Tring is now largely a...

 from 1892 to 1929.

Hartert published the quarterly museum periodical Novitates Zoologicae (1894-1939) with Rothschild, and the Hand List of British Birds (1912) with Francis Charles Robert Jourdain

Francis Charles Robert Jourdain

The Reverend Francis Charles Robert Jourdain , M.A., F.Z.S., M.B.O.U., was a notable British amateur ornithologist and oologist...

, Claud Ticehurst and Harry Witherby. He wrote Die Vögel der paläarktishen Fauna (1903-22) and travelled in India

India

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, Africa

Africa

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 and South America

South America

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 on behalf of his employer.

In 1930, Hartert retired to Berlin

Berlin

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, where he died.

Works

• 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. Drei Bände
• 1920: Die Vögel Europas