Leonhard Stejneger
ID: 2003-19544
Creator: Unknown
Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: circa 1920s
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 95, Box 22, Folder 13
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Leonhard Stejneger (1851-1943), ornithologist, herpetologist and zoologist, Head Curator of the Department of Biology and Curator of the Division of Reptiles and Batrachians. sits with his arm resting on a table.
Subject
- Stejneger, Leonhard 1851-1943
- United States National Museum Dept. of Reptiles and Batrachians
- United States National Museum
- United States National Museum Dept. of Biology
Category
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes
Leonhard Stejneger (1851-1943), ornithologist, herpetologist and zoologist, was born in Norway. In 1881 he left for the United States and arrived in Washington, D.C., where he soon began working with the birds of the New World at the Smithsonian Institution with particular interest in aquatic birds. In December 1884, he was appointed Assistant Curator in the Department of Birds under Robert Ridgway, Curator. In 1889, after the resignation of Henry Crecy Yarrow, Honorary Curator of the Department of Reptiles and Batrachians, Stejneger became the first full-time Curator for the Department. In 1903 he served as Acting Head Curator of the Department of Biology for several months, and in 1911 he was appointed Head Curator of the Department of Biology after Frederick William True vacated the post. From that time until his death, Stejneger served both as Head Curator of the Department of Biology and Curator of the Division of Reptiles and Batrachians.
Contained within
Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 95, Box 22, Folder 13
Contact information
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
Date
circa 1920s
Restrictions & Rights
No restrictions
Topic
- Animals
- Herpetology
- Zoology
- Smithsonian Institution
- Personnel management
- Birds
- Employees
- Herpetologists
- Museums
- Museum curators
- Ornithology
- Ornithologists
- Smithsonian Institution--Employees
- Zoologists
Form/Genre
- Photographic print
- Portraits
ID Number
2003-19544
Physical description
Color: Black and White; Size: 4w x 5h; Type of Image: Portrait; Medium: Photographic print