Oscar Rudolph Neumann

Who was Oscar Rudolph Neumann?

Oscar Rudolph Neumann was a German ornithologist.

Neumann travelled to Africa on several occasions, in particular between 1892 and 1894, and described many new African species. From 1900 to 1901 he traveled through Somaliland and southern Ethiopia with the German ornithologist Baron Carlo von Erlanger, clarifying the reports of earlier explorers and collecting numerous zoological specimens.

From 1908, financial difficulties forced Neumann to find employment in the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum, where he worked for many years. In Nazi Germany, he underlied racial discrimination and fled with the help of his friend Julius Riemer in 1941 from Berlin to Cuba then to Chicago, where he worked the final years of his life as a curator in the Field Museum of Natural History.

Numerous zoological species bear his name, a few being:

Neumann's Red-winged Starling.

Neumann's Warbler.

Philochortus neumanni, lizard from the genus Philochortus, described by Paul Matschie in 1893.