Introduction
Ernst Johann Otto Hartert (29 October 1859 – 11 November 1933) was a German ornithologist. Hartert was born in Hamburg. He was employed by Lionel Walter Rothschild as ornithological curator of his private museum at Tring 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, Claud Ticehurst and Harry Witherby. He wrote Die Vögel der paläarktishen Fauna (1903–22) and travelled in India, Africa and South America on behalf of his employer.
In 1930, Hartert retired to Berlin, where he died.
Works
Complete list of Hartert publications is contained in Rothschild (1934) obituary in the journal Ibis cited below.
- 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
Eponyms
A species of lizard, Hemiphyllodactylus harterti, and 12 birds are named in his honor.