Wilhelm Schlüter was a German

Germans

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 natural history

Natural History

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 dealer.

Wilhelm Schlüter was the proprietor of "das Naturwissenschaftliche Institut - Naturalien und Lehrmittelhandlung" in Hallean der Saale

Halle, Saxony-Anhalt

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. He sold many important bird and insect collections to museums and private collections. He also supplied specimens, equipment and books to universities. He was an associated with the ornithologists Otto Kleinschmidt

Otto Kleinschmidt

Otto Kleinschmidt was a German theologist, pastor and ornithologist. He introduced a typological species concept into German ornithology. His Formenkreis theory influenced the early ideas of Erwin Stresemann. Others have considered him one of the first biogeographers...

, Oscar Rudolph Neumann

Oscar Rudolph Neumann

Oscar Rudolph Neumann was a German ornithologist.Neumann travelled to Africa on several occasions, in particular between 1892 and 1894, and described many new African species...

 and August Carl Eduard Baldamus

August Carl Eduard Baldamus

August Carl Eduard Baldamus was a German ornithologist.August Baldamus studied theology at the University of Berlin.In 1859 he became Professor at the Gymnasium in Köthen where he met Carl Andreas Naumann and his brother Johann Friedrich Naumann both ornithologists.In 1849 he became Pastor in...

 and sold bird specimens collected by Herbert and Bruno Geisler

Bruno Geisler

Bruno Geisler was a German ornithologist.In 1887 Bruno Geisler began collecting birds in Ceylon and Java with his brother Herbert. In 1890 they moved on to the then German colony New Guinea...

 in New Guinea

New Guinea

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, by Gustav Schrader

Gustav Schrader

Gustav Schrader was a German ornithologist.Gustav Schrader, the son of a taxidermist was a bird collector and natural history dealer in Port Said. He collected in Egypt , Asia Minor, Ethiopia and Somaliland...

 in the Near East

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 and by Carl Constantin Platen

Carl Constantin Platen

Carl Constantin Platen was a German physician and zoological collector of birds and butterflies....

 in China

China

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 and South East Asia.