Hermann Grote

Hermann Grote (7 July 1882 – 12 August 1951, Berlin) was a German ornithologist known for his studies of African avifauna.

While serving as a director of a sisal plantation in German East Africa, he published papers on the local avifauna (from 1909 to 1913). As a P.O.W. of the Russians during World War I, he learned the Russian language, a skill set he subsequently used to translate Russian ornithological works into German. During his career, he was associated with ornithological research performed at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin.^[1]

In 1923 he was elected a corresponding fellow of the American Ornithologists' Union.^[1]

Taxa described by Grote

• Elminia albonotata subcaerulea (1923), a subspecies of the White-tailed Crested Flycatcher.
• Vidua togoensis (1923), the Togo Paradise Whydah.^[2]

Selected writings

• Beitrag zur Ornis des südöstlichen Deutsch-Ostafrika, 1912 – Contributions to the ornithology of southeastern German East Africa.
• Über einige gefangene ostafrikanische Vögel, 1912 – On some captive East African birds.
• Aus der ornithologischen Literatur Russlands: Berichte und Übersetzungen, Volume 5, 1925 – On Russian ornithological literature; reports and translations.
• Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Vogelfauna des Graslandes von Neukamerun. 1925 – Contributions associated with birds native to the grasslands of Neukamerun.
• Brutbiologisches aus N.A. Sarudnys Schriften, 1934 – Breeding biology by Nicholas Alexievich Sarudny.
• "Collected Papers on Ornithology", 1935.
• Neue Beiträge zur Kenntnis der palaearktischen Zugvögel in Afrika, 1937 – New contributions involving Palearctic migrant birds in Africa.^[3][4]

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