Bernhard Altum
1824–1900
German clergyman and zoologist. Specialised in ornithology and entomology. Lecturer in zoology, University of Munster, 1859. Professor of zoology, Forstakademie, Eberswalde, 1869.
Sources
NDB
Stresemann 1975, pp. 328–32.
Bibliography
NDB: Neue deutsche Biographie. Under the auspices of the Historical Commission of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. 27 vols. (A–Wettiner) to date. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. 1953–.
Stresemann, Erwin. 1975. Ornithology: from Aristotle to the present. Translated by Hans J. and Cathleen Epstein. Edited by G. William Cottrell. With foreword and epilogue by Ernst Mayr. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press.
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