About Hans Edmund Wolters
Lived 1915 – 1991 (aged 76). Hans Edmund Wolters was a German ornithologist and biologist.
Hans Edmund Wolters (11 February 1915 – 22 December 1991) was a German ornithologist from Duisburg. In 1960, he became an associate member of the Alexander Koenig Zoological Research Institute and Museum in Bonn. He became head of the museum's Department of Ornithology in 1973. He was one of the first European ornithologists to use a cladistic classification. This is reflected in his main work Die Vogelarten der Erde (The Bird Taxa of the World).
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German ornithologist (1915–1991)
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Hans Edmund Wolters was born on 11 February 1915 in Duisburg.
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Hans Edmund Wolters died on 22 December 1991.
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Hans Edmund Wolters was an ornithologist and biologist.
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Hans Edmund Wolters was German.
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