Oskar Engelhard von Löwis of Menar explained

Oskar Engelhard von Löwis of Menar (5 April 1838 - 6 August 1899) was a Baltic German ornithologist.

Life and work

He was born in present-day Valmiera District, Latvia (then part of the Russian Empire). He studied physics and economy in Tartu and worked as a public official in different capacities. An avid hunter and ornithologist, he was a member of the Riga Association of Natural Scientists (Der Naturforscherverein zu Riga), predecessor of the Natural History Museum of Latvia from 1878. He contributed to several publications on the bird-life in Latvia, and wrote three books on the subject. Among these is the first book about birds in the Latvian language.^{[1] [2]}

Selected works

• Die Reptilien Kur-, Liv- und Estlands: ein Handbüchlein für alle Naturfreunde in Stadt und Land. Riga: N. Kymmel's Buchhandlung, 1884
• Ievērojamākie Baltijas putni. Rīga: Ernsts Plates, 1893 (in Latvian)
• Unsere Baltischen Singvögel. Reval: Franz Kluge, 1895
• Diebe und Käuber in der Baltischen Vogelwelt. Riga: Deubner, 1898

Notes and References

1. Web site: Löwis of Menar, Oskar Engelhard v.. . German. Baltisches Biographisches Lexikon digital. Baltischen Historischen Kommission. 7 June 2015.
2. Web site: 2008. gads Latvijas ornitoloģijas vēsturē – nozīmīgi notikumi un jubilejas. Matrozis. Ruslan. Latvian. Putni Latvijā un pausalē. 7 June 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20160305145400/http://www.ornitofaunistika.com/txt/ornitogads08/ornitogads08.htm. 5 March 2016. dead.