Johann Maria Hildebrandt

HILDEBRANDTs father was director of the Academy of Arts in Düseldorf. HILDEBRANDT worked as engineer, but having lost one eye he started a career at the botanical garden in Berlin. 1871-1874 and 1875-1878 he collected intensively in N Ethiopia, Danakil- and Somaliland, around the Red Sea, E Africa, Arabia, Sansibar and on the Comores islands. His last expedition in 1879 for the Prussian academy of Sciences led him to Madagascar. Most of his collections came to Berlin as well as to the museum C. GODEFFROY in Hamburg. HILDEBRANDTs name is commemorated in some plant and bird taxa.

Lit.:
CABANIS, 1878: Uebersicht der Vögel Ost-Afrikas, welche von den Herren J.M. Hildebrandt und v. Kalkreuth gesammelt sind. J. Orn.
GEBHARDT L., 1964: Die Ornithologen Mitteleuropas. Giessen, p. 156.
GEBHARDT L, 1970: Die Ornithologen Mitteleuropas. Bd. 2. J. Orn. 111, Sh. 166 f.
HILDEBRANDT J.M. (u.a. 1879): (Reports about botanical and geographical expeditions). Zeitschrift der Ges. für Erdkunde, Berlin.
HORN et al., 1990: Collectiones entomologicae. Berlin. 171 f.
RENSCH C., 1876: Würdigung. Natur 25, 424-426 (Bild).
SCHALOW H., 1881: Johann Maria Hildebrandt . Orn. Cbl. 6, 1881, 119-120.

Pers. comm.: S. FRAHNERT, S. HACKETHAL, Berlin, Germany
Nachruf Johann Maria Hildebrandt (aus Ornith. Centralblatt 6)
Lebensdaten deutscher Bryologen (aus Bryologische Rundbriefe 26)

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