biography
| name: |
Radde, Gustav Ferdinand Richard
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pronunciation:
[rahduh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1831–1903)
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| biography:
| Naturalist, ornithologist, and explorer, born in Gdańsk, N Poland (formerly Danzig, Germany). Trained as an apothecary, he abandoned his career for a study of natural history. He travelled widely in the Caucasus and surrounding regions, and became director of a museum he established in Tiflis. He wrote Ornis Caucasica (1884) and many other works. Radde's warbler and Radde's accentor are named after him. |
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