About Carl Eduard Hellmayr
Lived 1878 – 1944 (aged 66). Carl Eduard Hellmayr was an Austrian botanist and ornithologist.
Carl Eduard Hellmayr (29 January 1878 – 24 February 1944) was an Austrian ornithologist.
Biography Carl Eduard Hellmayr was born on 29 January 1878 in Vienna and studied at the University of Vienna, although he did not complete his degree. After his studies he worked in Vienna, Munich, Berlin, Paris, Tring (England), and Chicago.
He spent the years 1905–1908 studying Baron Rothschild's private collection of natural history specimens at Tring, near London. There he received guidance from the German ornithologist Ernst Hartert.
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Austrian ornithologist (1878-1944)
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Carl Eduard Hellmayr was born on 29 January 1878 in Vienna.
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Carl Eduard Hellmayr died on 24 February 1944 in Orselina.
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Carl Eduard Hellmayr was a botanist and ornithologist.
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Carl Eduard Hellmayr was Austrian.
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