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Oskar Engelhard von Löwis of Menar






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Oskar Engelhard von Löwis of Menar
Family coat of arms of the von Löwis of Menar

Oskar Engelhard von Löwis of Menar (5 April 1838–6 August 1899) was a Baltic German ornithologist.

Life and work[edit]

He was born in present-day Valmiera District, Latvia (then part of the Russian Empire). He studied physics and economyinTartu and worked as a public official in different capacities. An avid hunter and ornithologist, he was a member of the Riga Association of Natural Scientists (Der Naturforscherverein zu Riga), predecessor of the Natural History Museum of Latvia from 1878. He contributed to several publications on the bird-life in Latvia, and wrote three books on the subject. Among these is the first book about birds in the Latvian language.[1][2]

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References[edit]

  1. ^ "Löwis of Menar, Oskar Engelhard v." Baltisches Biographisches Lexikon digital (in German). Baltischen Historischen Kommission. Retrieved 7 June 2015.
  • ^ Matrozis; Ruslan. "2008. gads Latvijas ornitoloģijas vēsturē – nozīmīgi notikumi un jubilejas" (in Latvian). Putni Latvijā un pausalē. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 7 June 2015.


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