Melanie
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It is possible to find out the biographical dates of Emil Kaempfer? I have only a short note in the book Whose Bird? by Bo Beolens and Michael Watkins. I know that he was from Germany and I know that he was an important assistant for Elsie Naumburg in the 1920s and 1930s. And he stayed in Brazil for a long time. But it seems that no one has ever challenged his live dates (date of birth, place of birth, date of death, place of death) There is not even an obituary what is rather strange as two birds (Kaempfer’s woodpecker and Kaempfer’s tody-tyrant) are named for him. Maybe there could be also data (from hard to find books) in Portuguese about him.