Professional paper
Josip Ettinger – The First Croatian Zoologist
Alojzije Frković
; Rijeka
Abstract
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the death of Josip Ettinger (Nova Gradiška, 20 November 1801 – Zagreb, 4 February 1908), the article presents the life and work of this forestry expert and publicist, one the first Croatian zoologists, dendrologists and ornithologists. After completing the study of forestry in Mariabrunn, he spent most of his working life in Srijem and the Bjelovar-Križevci region, where he investigated the authentic flora and fauna of the area and collected material for the Country Zoological Museum in Zagreb and the dendrological collection of the Croatian-Slavonian Forestry Association. His special interest involved the bird world of Obedska Bara. His work “Der Syrmische Sumpf Obedska Bara und seine Vogelwelt” (Vienna 1857) attracted the interest of foreign and home ornithologists in this birds´ reserve. In his first book from the field of game management, “Sriemsko-slavonsko-hrvatske divlje životine, zvieri i ptice” (The Srijem-Slavonian-Croatian Wild Animals, Beasts and Birds) he complemented the Latin names of the described animals with their Croatian equivalents. The JAZU (Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts) published the work dealing with the forms of the genus Quercus, which he produced in cooperation with Ljudevit Vukotinovic. After his retirement in Zagreb, he became highly active in science and publishing. With the support of the Croatian-Slavonian Forestry Association, he published several books and manuals from the field of forestry and hunting. This article deals particularly with the following works: Hrvatski lovdžija (The Croatian Hunter), The Registry of Authors and Articles published in the Forestry Journal and the Croatian Forestry Lexicon.
Keywords
common names of animals; Josip Ettinger; oaks in the Bjelovar County; Obedska Bara; ornithology
Hrčak ID:
26355
URI
Publication date:
31.8.2008.
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