Oscar Neumann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Oscar Neumann

German ornithologist

Date of Birth: 03-Sep-1867

Place of Birth: Berlin

Date of Death: 17-May-1946

Profession: biologist, ornithologist, explorer, non-fiction writer

Nationality: Germany, German Empire

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Oscar Rudolph Neumann (3 September 1867 in Berlin – 17 May 1946 in Chicago) was a German ornithologist. Neumann travelled to Africa on several occasions, in particular between 1892 and 1894, and described many new African species.
From 1900 to 1901 he traveled through Somaliland and southern Ethiopia with the German ornithologist Baron Carlo von Erlanger, clarifying the reports of earlier explorers and collecting numerous zoological specimens. From 1908, financial difficulties forced Neumann to find employment in the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum, where he worked for many years.
In 1941, with the help of his friend Julius Riemer he fled Nazi Germany, traveling from Berlin to Cuba, then to Chicago, where he worked the final years of his life as a curator in the Field Museum of Natural History.