Hans von Berlepsch

The count Hans Hermann Carl Ludwig von Berlepsch is a German ornithologist , born in 1850 and dead the February 27th 1915.

Berlepsch studies the Zoologie with the university of Market. Thanks to a comfortable heritage, it can finance forwardings of several naturalists in South America like Jean Kalinowski or Hermann von Ihering (1850-1930). Its collection, rich person of 55.000 Bird X, will be sold after its death with the Muséum Senckenberg of Francfort-sur-le-Main.

Several S are dedicated to him like the Colibri of Berlepsch ( Acestrura berlepschi ), the Tinamou de Berlepsch ( Crypturellus berlepschi ) or the Synallaxe de Berlepsch ( Asthenes berlepschi ).

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Translation of the article of English language of Wikipédia (version of December 17th, 2005).

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