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Maria Koepcke (born Maria Emilie Anna von Mikulicz-Radecki, 15 May 1924 – c. 24 December 1971) was a German ornithologist known for her work with Neotropical bird species. Koepcke was a well-respected authority in South American ornithology and her work is still referenced today. For her efforts, she is commemorated in the scientific names of ...
She specialised in South American birds. Naumburg's most important work was on the birds of the Mato Grosso, based on collections made by George Kruck Cherrie during the Roosevelt–Rondon Scientific Expedition led by Theodore Roosevelt and Cândido Rondon. She later employed Emil Kaempfer to collect birds in southeastern Brazil.
She and her daughter Johanna sold flower pictures to art collector Agnes Block. By 1698 Merian lived in a well-furnished house on Kerkstraat. [10]: 166 In 1699, the city of Amsterdam granted Merian permission to travel to Suriname in South America, along with her younger daughter Dorothea Maria. On 10 July, the fifty-two year old Merian and her ...
Vera Elkan (1908–2008), remembered for her images of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War; Phumzile Khanyile (born 1991) Constance Stuart Larrabee (1914–2000), South African's first female World War II correspondent, also known for images of South Africa; Carla Liesching (born 1985), visual artist specialising in photography
Juliane Margaret Beate Koepcke (born 10 October 1954), is a German-Peruvian mammalogist who specialises in bats. The daughter of German zoologists Maria and Hans-Wilhelm Koepcke, lightning struck the 1971 LANSA Flight 508 where she became the sole survivor of the crash. She fell 3,000 m (10,000 ft) while strapped to her seat and suffered ...
Frieda Riess (1890–c. 1955), German portrait photographer in the 1920s with a studio in central Berlin; Tata Ronkholz (1940–1997) Hildegard Rosenthal (1913–1990), German photographer who became a photojournalist and a noted photographer after her emigration to Brazil.
She was also in the Junta de la Victoria (Victory Board), a women's group advocating against fascism and for the Allies. [10] After the war, Heinrich travelled across Europe, exhibiting her work in Rome, Milan, Paris, and Zürich. [10] In the 1950s Heinrich was part of a modernist group calling themselves Carpeta de los diez (Group of Ten). [11]
The Golden eagle (Steinadler) is the national bird of Germany. This is a list of the bird species recorded in Germany.The avifauna of Germany includes a total of 527 confirmed species as of December 2016, according to the German Ornithologists' Society (Deutsche Ornithologen-Gesellschaft (DO-G), published in October 2019; [1] four more were added up to 2021. [2]