Rudolf Tancre
TANCRÉ was businessman, natural history dealer and hunter in Anklam and sent collectors to E Europe and Asia (taxidermist RÜCKBEIL). His interests mainly focused on butterflies and birds. He dealt with many European museums and private collectors (HOMEYER E.F., HOMEYER A., KOENIG A.). Main collections came from Turkestan, Issyk-Kul-area. Entomological collections were sold to the museums Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Bonn and London.
Lit.:
GEBHARDT L., 1964: Die Ornithologen Mitteleuropas. Giessen, p. 356
GEBHARDT L, 1970: Die Ornithologen Mitteleuropas. Bd. 2. J. Orn. 111, Sh. 191 f.
Heimatkalender f. Stadt und Kreis Anklam 1933, S. 74
HORN et al., 1990: Collectiones entomologicae. Berlin. 387 f.
Pers. comm. R. GAEDIKE