Julius Adolf Oskar von Riesenthal (18 September 1830 – 22 January 1898) was a German forester

Forester

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, ornithologist

Ornithology

Ornithology is a branch of zoology that concerns the study of birds. Several aspects of ornithology differ from related disciplines, due partly to the high visibility and the aesthetic appeal of birds...

, hunter

Hunting

Hunting is the practice of pursuing any living thing, usually wildlife, for food, recreation, or trade. In present-day use, the term refers to lawful hunting, as distinguished from poaching, which is the killing, trapping or capture of the hunted species contrary to applicable law...

 and writer.

He was born in Breslau, Silesia

Silesia

Silesia is a historical region of Central Europe located mostly in Poland, with smaller parts also in the Czech Republic, and Germany.Silesia is rich in mineral and natural resources, and includes several important industrial areas. Silesia's largest city and historical capital is Wrocław...

 (then in Prussia

Prussia

Prussia was a German kingdom and historic state originating out of the Duchy of Prussia and the Margraviate of Brandenburg. For centuries, the House of Hohenzollern ruled Prussia, successfully expanding its size by way of an unusually well-organized and effective army. Prussia shaped the history...

: now Wrocław, Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

), to a family of Austrian descent. His father died when he was a year old, and he moved with his mother to Oels (now Oleśnica

Olesnica

Oleśnica is a town in the Trzebnickie Hills in southwestern Poland with 36,951 inhabitants . It is situated in Lower Silesian Voivodeship...

), where he spent his childhood and early youth until matriculating from Gymnasium . He studied at the Forestry Academy in Neustadt-Eberswalde

Eberswalde

Eberswalde is a major town and the administrative seat of the district Barnim in the German Federal State of Brandenburg, about 50 km northeast of Berlin. Population 42144 , geographical location . The town is often called Waldstadt , because of the large forests around it, including the...

, becoming a Revierförster (district forest ranger) in the Tuchola Forest

Tuchola Forest

The Tuchola Forest is a large forest near the town of Tuchola in northern Poland, and lies between the Brda and Wda Rivers. It contains the Tuchola Forest National Park, which is at the core of the Tuchola Forest Biosphere Reserve, designated by UNESCO in 2010.- Landscape :The area was formed...

, where he began studying ornithology. In 1871 he became Oberförster (chief forester) in Altenkirchen

Altenkirchen (district)

Altenkirchen is a district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is bounded by the North Rhine-Westphalian districts Rhein-Sieg, Oberbergischer Kreis, Olpe and Siegen-Wittgenstein, and the districts of Westerwaldkreis and Neuwied....

, where he wrote his first book, Die Raubvögel Deutschlands und des angrenzenden Mitteleuropas (Birds of Prey of Germany and adjoining Central Europe). He later became Royal Forester for the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Domains in Charlottenburg

Charlottenburg

Charlottenburg is a locality of Berlin within the borough of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, named after Queen consort Sophia Charlotte...

, where he stayed until his death in 1898.

Works

• Die Raubvögel Deutschlands und des angrenzenden Mitteleuropas, 1879.
• Das Waidwerk: Handbuch der Naturgeschichte, Jagd und Hege aller in Mitteleuropa Jagdbaren Thiere (The Chase: Manual of Natural History, Hunting and the Protection of Game Animals in Central Europe), 1880.
• Jagdlexikon (Hunting Lexicon), 1882.
• Die Kleine Jagd: Fur Jäger und Jagdliebhaber (The Little Hunt: for Hunters and Hunting Enthusiasts), 1884: he revised the fifth edition of this book by Friedrich Ernst Jester
• Die Kennzeichen der Vögel Mitteleuropas und angrenzender Gebiete (The Characteristics of the Birds of Central Europe and Adjacent Areas), 1891.
• Bilder aus der Tucheler Heide: galgenhumoristische Gesänge; zur Erbaulichkeit aller Grünröcke und ihrer Freunde (Scenes from the Tuchola Forest: gallows-humour songs for the edification of the greendresses and their friends), 1896.
• Die Stiefel des Herrn Oberforstmeisters, Der verrückte Keiler, sowie andere lustige Geschichten und Gedichte aus dem Leben eines alten Forstmannes (The Boots of the Chief Forester, the Crazy Wild Boar, and other Funny Stories and Poems from the Life of an Old Forester), published posthumously, 1903.

Jägermeister

The first stanza from one of his poems, "Waidmannsheil" ("Hunter's Salute"), is printed on the Jägermeister

Jägermeister

Jägermeister is a German 70-proof digestif made with 56 different herbs and spices. It is the flagship product of Mast-Jägermeister SE, headquartered in Wolfenbüttel, south of Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, Germany.- History :...

bottle label.

Waidmannsheil

Das ist des Jägers Ehrenschild,

Daß er beschützt und hegt sein Wild,

Waidmännisch jagt, wie sich’s gehört,

Den Schöpfer im Geschöpfe ehrt!

Das Kriegsgeschoß der Haß regiert, -

Die Lieb’ zum Wild den Stutzen führt:

Drum denk’ bei Deinem täglich Brot

Ob auch Dein Wild nicht leidet Noth?

Behüt’s vor Mensch und Thier zumal!

Verkürze ihm die Todesqual!

Sei außen rauh, doch innen mild, -

Dann bleibet blank Dein Ehrenschild!