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Bernard Altum

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100: 20: 130:, with whom he particularly clashed. At a meeting of Berlin ornithologists on 6 April 1868, Brehm had commented that Altum's work was theological and teleological and was opposed to a modern understanding of zoology and that he was making birds and animals into (instinct-driven) machines by not crediting them with intelligence, thereby debasing the study of birds. 125:
only in 1920. Altum noted defence of territory using song, the relationship of territory size to food availability and examined how competition or the lack of it between species decided territorial conflict or overlap between two species. Altum was a creationist, and when the book was printed, it was
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which included notes on territoriality in birds in 1935. Mayr noted that many English ornithologists believed that concepts of territory had been established by
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In his earlier work, his research primarily dealt with mammals and birds; after moving to Eberswalde, his studies were largely in the field of forest
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Wissenschaftspopularisierung im 19. Jahrhundert: Bürgerliche Kultur, naturwissenschaftliche Bildung und die deutsche Öffentlichkeit, 1848–1914
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Wissenschaftspopularisierung im 19. Jahrhundert: Bürgerliche Kultur, naturwissenschaftliche Bildung und die deutsche Öffentlichkeit, 1848–1914
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Altum, seated third from left, as part of an examination board under the ministry of agriculture and forests in Berlin, October 1893
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in Münster, and was ordained as a priest in 1849. Later, his interests turned to zoology, a discipline that he studied under
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Altum was born to shoemaker Bernard Theodor Altum and Anna Gertrude Antonette Huder of
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who also engaged in popularizing his religiously grounded understanding of science.
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Academic staff of the Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development
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Brehm, A.; Bolle, C.; Sekretär, D.; Cabanis, J. (1868).
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Homeri cum Aeschyli, Sophoclis, Euripidis comparantur
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Catholic priest
zoologist
forest scientist
Münster
Province of Westphalia
philosophy
theology
Johannes Peter Müller
Martin Lichtenstein
Berlin
University of Münster
Eberswalde
Julius Theodor Christian Ratzeburg
entomology

German Ornithologists' Society
Ernst Mayr
Eliot Howard
Alfred Brehm
dissertation
beetles
Andreas W. Daum


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