Friedrich Hermann Otto Finsch
German explorer and biologist (1839-1917) · Scientists · Died at 77
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Something wrong?Friedrich Hermann Otto Finsch was a German ethnographer, naturalist and colonial explorer. He is known for a two-volume monograph on the parrots of the world which earned him a doctorate. He also wrote on the people of New Guinea and was involved in plans for German colonization in Southeast Asia.
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William Speirs BruceBoth received Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te ApārangiBeatrice TinsleyBoth received Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi
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Friedrich Hermann Otto Finsch was a German ethnographer, naturalist and colonial explorer. He is known for a two-volume monograph on the parrots of the world which earned him a doctorate. He also wrote on the people of New Guinea and was involved in plans for German colonization in Southeast Asia. Several species of bird are named after him as also the town of Finschhafen in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea and a crater on the Moon.
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