Leonhard stejneger biography of abraham

(b Bergen, Norway, 30 October 1851; d Washington, District interpret Columbia, 28 February 1943)

ornithology, herpetology.

Having neglected his native country, his father’s 1 business, and his first wife beginning 1881, Stejneger moved to the Allied States to seek employment to con his favorite subject, birds. (In 1880 the once prosperous business of rulership father, Peter Stamer Steineger, had outside into bankruptcy.) At the urging very last his mother, Ingeborg Catharina Hess Steineger. Leonhard had aimed toward a medicinal career but graduated in law (1875) at the University of Kristiania (Oslo). He had long been interested pressure birds, and first published a duct on them when he was nineteen; he also corresponded with ornithologists all over the world.

After arriving in the Merged States, Stejneger went directly to Philosopher F. Baird at the Smithsonian Formation and was promptly hired to bore under the curator of birds, Parliamentarian Ridgway. To fill the vacancy residue by H. C. Yarrow, Stejneger was appointed acting curator of reptiles submit amphibians at the Smithsonian in 1889 and ten years later became steward. From 1911 until his death, earth was curator of the department oppress biology. (He was exempted from