Hans Edmund Wolters, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German ornithologist
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Place of Birth: Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
About Hans Edmund Wolters
- Hans Edmund Wolters (11 February 1915 – 22 December 1991) was a German ornithologist from Duisburg.
- In 1960, he became an associate member of the Alexander Koenig Zoological Research Institute and Museum in Bonn.
- He became head of the museum's Department of Ornithology in 1973.
- He was one of the first European ornithologists to use a cladistic classification.
- This is reflected in his main work Die Vogelarten der Erde (The Bird Taxa of the World).
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