Joachim Rohweder (2 September 1841 – 29 December 1905) was a German teacher, ornithologist and bird conservationist. He wrote one of the earliest comprehensive works on the birds of the Schleswig-Holstein region.
Life and work
editRohweder was born in Wapelfeld, Duchy of Holstein in a farming household. At the age of seven, he would have experienced the First Schleswig War. He studied at the village school and then at Hohenwestedt before training as a teacher. He was an assistant teacher at Hamburg during which time he attended lectures at the Johanneum. In 1862 he studied at a teacher training college in Bad Segeberg and took a special interest in the natural sciences. He graduated in 1865 and became a private tutor at the home of a magistrate named Stolz in Leck. He then worked at a naval school in Flensburg and in 1866 he moved to the Royal Gymnasium in Husum where he lived and worked for nearly forty years until his death.[1]
Rohweder became an expert on the birds of the Schleswig-Holstein region and published notes in the ornithological newsletter edited by Rudolf Blasius. He became a campaigner for the protection of birds in the region and co-founded an animal protection association in 1879. The government of Schleswig-Holstein sent him to Heligoland in 1893 where he studied trapping practices and made suggestions for stopping them.[2] He was involved in the protection of breeding seabird colonies on the islands of Sylt, Norderoog, and Süderoog. He was an ardent fan of Theodor Storm's poetry.[1][3][4]
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Part of Rohweder's list of birds of Schleswig-Holstein with seasonal distribution pattern indicated, 1875 -
Cover of an 1893 book on floral diagrams and plant classification -
A memorial to Rohweder in Mildstedt
References
edit- ^ a b Blasius, Rudolf (1906). "Joachim Rohweder". Ornithologische Monatsschrift. 31: 289–297.
- ^ Stresemann, Erwin (1967). "Vor- und Frühgeschichte der Vogelforschung auf Helgoland". Journal für Ornithologie (in German). 108 (4): 377–429. Bibcode:1967JOrni.108..377S. doi:10.1007/BF01673244. ISSN 0021-8375. S2CID 30611719.
- ^ Berndt, Rolf K. (2015). Geschichte der Feldornithologie in Schleswig-Holstein und Hamburg (in German). Wachholtz: Murmann Publishers. pp. 28–29.
- ^ Rohweder, J. (1891). "Am Balzplatz von Gallinago major". Journal für Ornithologie (in German). 39 (4): 419–426. Bibcode:1891JOrni..39..419R. doi:10.1007/BF02250287. ISSN 0021-8375. S2CID 7542975.
External links
edit- Publications
- Rohweder, J. (1875) Die Vögel Schleswig-Holsteins und ihre Verbreitung in der Provinz nebst einer graphischen Darstellung ihrer Zug- und Brutverhältnisse. In: Jahresbericht, Königliches Gymnasium und Höhere Bürgerschule zu Husum, 14. März 1875: 1-24
- Rohweder, J. (1875) Die Vögel Schleswig-Holstein′s und ihre Verbreitung in der Provinz. Thomsen, Husum
- Rohweder, J. (1876) Bemerkungen zur Schleswig-holsteinischen Ornithologie. Schriften des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins für Schleswig-Holstein 2:117-140
- Unsere Schnepfen (1902) ["Our snipes"]
- Grave of Rohweder