Gustav Hartlaub

Karel Johan Gustav Hartlaub (1814 to 1900) was a German physician and ornithologist, born in Bremen. He studied at Bonn and Berlin and graduated in medicine at Göttingen. From 1840 he collected exotic birds, which he donated to the Bremen Natural History Museum, and he described some of these species for the first time. In 1852 he founded the Journal für Ornithologie with Jean Cabanis. With Otto Finsch he wrote a work on the birds of the Viti, Samoa and Tonga islands, published in 1867 with hand-coloured lithographs and based on specimens collected by Eduard Heinrich Graeffe for Museum Godeffroy. Several birds carry his name, among them Hartlaub's bustard, turaco, duck and gull. The source describes no medical practice, so his place in the atlas rests on his medical degree and his natural history work.