Georg Krause (oologist)

Georg (Albert Julius) Krause (1858 – 7 February 1915) was a Silesian-German oologist and bookseller from Hirschberg. He illustrated and published a book on the eggs of palearctic birds. Among his significant collections were eggs of the now-extinct Aepyornis.[1]

Krause with two Aepyornis eggs, an ostrich egg and a hen’s egg, c. 1900

Biography
Krause with wife Hedwig and children

Krause was born in Glogau, Kingdom of Prussia, and became a collector of eggs from childhoold. He later lived in Hirschberg, Silesia. In 1900 he was in charge of the natural and geological collections at the Karkonosze Museum in Jelenia Góra.[2] In 1901 he published a pamphlet on the anatomical structure of the ear of birds.[3] In 1905 he became a curator at the Zoological Museum in Berlin and published the Oologia universalis palaearctica from 1906 to 1913 in 78 fascicles (out of a projected 150) with (quarto) plates made from his own illustrations of eggs.[4][5]

  • Title page of Oologia universalis palaearctica
    Title page of Oologia universalis palaearctica
  • Plate from Oologia universalis palaearctica showing eggs of golden plover
    Plate from Oologia universalis palaearctica showing eggs of golden plover
  • Reconstruction of Aepyornis by Krause, 1900
    Reconstruction of Aepyornis by Krause, 1900

In 1914 he was concerned by the collection of tern's eggs, especially those of Sandwich tern, being used in large numbers in the Berlin chocolate industry for the production of Easter eggs. His note, with his address at Pankow, Berlin, on the topic was published posthumously in 1919.[6]

References
  1. Krause, Georg (1900). "Aepyornis-Eier". Ornithologische Monatsschrift (in German). 25: 299–304.
  2. Rzeszowski, Robert (2014). "Historia Muzeum RGV do 1945 roku". 100 lat Muzeum Karkonoskiego w Jeleniej Górze (PDF) (in Polish). pp. 9–67.
  3. Krause, Georg (1901). Die Columella der Vögel (Columella auris avium) ihr Bau und dessen Einfluss auf die Feinhörigkeit; neue Untersuchungen und Beiträge zur comparativen Anatomie des Gehörorganes. Berlin: R. Friedländer & Sohn.
  4. Scheidt, Ulrich; Grimm, Herbert (2015). "Einblicke in das Netzwerk der Fa. Wilhelm Schlüter, Naturalien- und Lehrmittelhandlung" (PDF). Vernate (in German). Naturkundemuseums Erfurt. 34: 45–62.
  5. Krause, Georg (1891). "Das Vogel-Ei" (PDF). Helios - Abhandlungen und Monatliche Mittheilungen aus dem Gesammtgebiete der Naturwissenschafte (in German). 8: 134–140.
  6. Krause, Georg (1919). "Das Vogelei in der Industrie". Zeitschrift für Oologie und Ornithologie (in German). 24: 47–48.
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