Heinrich Gätke
1814–97
German ornithologist. After working as a merchant and a painter, moved to Helgoland where he became a government secretary. Self-taught as an ornithologist, his publications drew attention to Helgoland (in the North Sea) as a centre of bird migration. The Prussian government purchased his bird collection in 1891 for the North Sea museum of the Biological Institute.
Source
DBE.
Bibliography
DBE: Deutsche biographische Enzyklopädie. Edited by Walter Killy et al. 12 vols. in 14. Munich: K. G. Saur. 1995–2000.
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