Ernst Hartert

Who was Ernst Hartert?

Ernst Johann Otto Hartert 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 with Rothschild, and the Hand List of British Birds with Francis Charles Robert Jourdain, Claud Ticehurst and Harry Witherby. He wrote Die Vögel der paläarktishen Fauna and travelled in India, Africa and South America on behalf of his employer.

In 1930, Hartert retired to Berlin, where he died.