Eduard Daniël van Oort

Dutch ornithologist

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Eduard Daniël van Oort

Born	(1876-10-31)31 October 1876 Barneveld, Gelderland, Netherlands
Died	21 September 1933(1933-09-21) (aged 56) Leiden, Netherlands
Nationality	Dutch
Scientific career
Fields	Ornithology
Institutions	Rijksmuseum of Natural History

Eduard Daniël van Oort (31 October 1876 in Barneveld, Gelderland – 21 September 1933 in Leiden) was a Dutch ornithologist.

Oort was in charge of the bird collections at the Rijksmuseum of Natural History in Leiden; in 1915 he was made Director of this museum, a position which he held until his death. He was the author of Ornithologia Neerlandica, de vogels van Nederland (1922-1935), with plates by Marinus Adrianus Koekkoek (1873-1944). These plates were later licensed by Harry Witherby for use in The Handbook of British Birds (1938-1941).

A species of Indonesian gecko, Lepidodactylus oortii, is named in his honor.^[1]

References

^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Oort", p. 195).

External links

Obituary
Bayer, Ch. (1933). "In Memoriam E.D. van Oort 1876—1933". Zoologische Mededelingen, Rijks Museum van Natuurlijke Historie, Leiden 16: 263–265. PDF