Herr Rohde's invalid Antshrike (1 Viewer)

I continue to clean up my desk, so here's a minor addition (a birth year) on the eponym ...

rohdei as in:
• the invalid "Thamnophilus rohdei" BERLEPSCH 1887 (here + Plate, here) [Synonym of Great Antshrike Taraba major VIEILLOT 1816]
= the German (i.e. Prussian) adventurer, explorer, trader and collector (of both various Naturalia and ethnological items) Richard Rohde (1855–xxxx) a k a Ricardo Rohde

Born 1855, in Tilsit, East Prussia (today's Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia ...) ... resident in Agentina and Paraguay during most of the 1880's, mostly knowns as a collector in the latter country, during the mid 1880's. In the late 1880's he seems to have left for New Guinea (where we find him in 1890), and after that ... he vanished! No year, nor date found on his death. And no date regarding his birth.

See (for examples) the following links; here, here and here.

For what it´s worth!

Björn

Here as Richard Otto Rhode (1855–?). The footnote tells us from records until March 1911 before he disappeared.

Taphrospilus said:

Here as Richard Otto Rhode (1855–?). The footnote tells us from records until March 1911 before he disappeared.

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Yes, but otherwise in the same book, and in the footnote itself it is written: "Rohde", see here.

Note that Anita Hermannstädter (to which she refer, in the footnote on p.68) in her book Deutsche am Amazona (2002) writes his surname: "Rohde", snippet view here.

No need to reconsider the spelling, in my mind; most likely a typo by Beatrix Hoffman.

However; still no trace of his death.

Björn

PS. And, just for the fun of it; here´s a Photo from an Exkursion der Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte 1885, where we also find Richard Rohde (here). However it´s a bit harder to tell who he is ... among the 18 men (only 14 with names) on the Photo!

But judging from (alt. compared with) the picture here (on p.55) I would say he´s the third guy, from the left (standing). See attached JPGs.
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Calalp said:

See attached JPGs.

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See also [this]. (Same scene, different photo. But it looks like you're right.)

An odd sequence of numbers!

But I agree, its him (on the latter photo, in post #4, sitting down, marked; No.4)

Cheers!

The Eponym Dictionary of Birds claims:

Antshrike sp. Thamnophilus rohdei Berlepsch, 1887 NCR [Alt. Great Antshrike; JS Taraba major] Ricardo Rohde (DNF) was a collector who operated in Paraguay (1885–1886). He later joined the German New Guinea Company (1889). An amphibian and a reptile are named after him.

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The Key to Scientific Names

Richard Otto Rohde (1855-?1911) German collector, resident in Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil (syn. Taraba major).

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If died in 1911 seems still in question.

Otto Richard Rohde (1855-1912)

Death Date:25 Nov 1912
Civil Registration Office:Berlin XII a

Was only in New Guinea in 1888 and 89. Afterward was in SW Africa but clearly came back to Berlin to die.

P