Werner Klemm, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Romanian ornithologist
Date of Birth: 24-Jul-1909
Place of Birth: Aiud, Alba, Romania
Date of Death: 19-Dec-1990
Profession: ornithologist, school teacher
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Werner Klemm
- Werner Friedrich Heinrich Klemm (24 July 1909 - 19 December 1990) was a Romanian school teacher and ornithologist who studied the birds of Transylvania. Klemm was born in Aiud to timber merchant Max Klemm and his wife Selma.
- The family moved to Sibiu (Hermannstadt) in 1919 where he received his schooling at the Brukenthal High School where he was influenced by Alfred Kamner.
- He studied natural sciences at Jena University and at King Ferdinand I University in Cluj (Klausenburg), receiving a diploma in science in 1935.
- He started teaching at a school in Bistri?a (Bistritz) and then studied theology at Berlin in 1936 and 1937.
- He then went to teach in Bu?teni.
- From 1940 to 1942 he taught at Bra?ov (Kronstadt) and then at Brukenthal High School until 1945.
- He was deported to the Soviet Union in 1949.
- He was made an honorary member of the Romanian Academy of Sciences in 1966.
- In 1987 he and his family moved to the Federal Republic of Germany.
- He died at Marktoberdorf.Klemm was involved in natural history education for school students and had helped in building the conservation movement in Romania.
- He worked on the protection of white storks, white-tailed eagles and the conservation of habitats, particularly in the Danube Delta region.
- He was involved in ringing birds from 1974 and was involved in bird censuses.
- He wrote Der Vogelzug (1939) and as many as 164 other publications.
- Another major work published only in 1985 was the third volume of Die Ornis Siebenbürgens written along with Stefan Kohl.
- Klemm collaborated in the production of the Birds of the Western Palearctic.He married Helga Keintzel in 1938 and they had two sons and two daughters.
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