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Lophotibis cristata urschi Lavauden, 1929 (1 Viewer)

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Lophotibis cristata urschi Lavauden, 1929 OD here

The Eponym Dictionary of Birds claims:
Madagascar Ibis ssp. Lophotibis cristata urschi Lavauden, 1929
Eugène Ursch (1882–1962) was a French botanist and orchid collector on Madagascar, Director of the Zoological and Botanical Gardens at Tsimbazaza.

The Key to Scientific Names
Eugène Ursch (1882-1962) French botanist, orchid collector on Madagascar (subsp. Lophotibis cristata).

Found as well the plant:
Angraecum urschianum
Species dedicated to Eugène Ursch (1882-1962) former director ofthe botanical and zoological park of Tsimbazaza at Antanarivo.

...and here...
Ursch, Eugène French. b. 1882. d. 1962. Garde forestier (1928); then Inspecteur, Service Forestier, Madagascar; stationed (1930s ?) at Analamazaotra, Madagascar; responsible (1940s?) for the zoo and vivarium, Parc de Tsimbazaza, Antananarivo; Dir. (1956), Botanical Gard., I.R.S.M .; Correspondant (1947) , Muséum (Paris) ; Soc . Amis P.B.Z.T. Ref. Bibliographie (1956-63, p . 144) ; Brummitt & Powell (1992); Collectors (1988)

Is it this guy here Eugène Alphonse Ursch? At least the closest I could find in filae with a birth around 1882. Till now I failed to find where he was born and where he died.
 
Is it this guy here Eugène Alphonse Ursch? At least the closest I could find in filae with a birth around 1882. Till now I failed to find where he was born and where he died.

This record is crossed out and marked in the header as cancelled ("annulé") and fake ("état civil d'emprunt")...
 
Eugène Alphonse Ursch (1883-1957)
Birth:Apr 2 1883 Strasbourg
Marriage:Spouse: Marie Victorine GRANDCOLAS Married Jan 16 1911 Gerardmer
Death:July 1 1957 Saint-Die

This is the same guy that Martin found - I admit that this doesn't agree with the document in post #3 but this was on Ancestry, FamilySearch and Myheritage. What could "état civil d'emprunt" mean??


Our guy as Laurent found is

Eugène Xavier URSCH (1882-)

Born Dec 3 1882
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Drusenheim, Bas-Rhin, Grand Est, France

Our guy was made a chevalier in 1936 if that helps.

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He was, in any case, a forester in Alsace-Lorraine before moving to Madagascar, see here ("garde forestier domanial de 4e classe du cadre alsacien-lorrain").
(Alsace-Lorraine was German between 1871 and the end of WW1. The birth records from this period are all in German (in alte Schrift). I don't know if this may have had consequences on the quality of the data in Filae, which is a French website.)

Eugène Alphonse Ursch (1883-1957)
Birth:Apr 2 1883 Strasbourg
Eugen Alfons Ursch, geb. 2 April 1883 in Strasburg: here.
Son of the Zuckerbäcker (= confectioner) Joseph Ursch, and seiner Ehefrau Marie Luise geb. Keusch.
Died in Gérardmer (not St-Dié) on 1 July 1957 (the 'cinquante' is not really readable, but is consistent with the added note dating from 1958).
 
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Sorry Eugène Alphonse was a red herring Laurent. Ursch is an Alsatian name of course. Our man was the son of
Andre Ursch (Day labourer)
1848–1913
Marriage: 10 April 1877 Drusenheim, Bas-Rhin, Grand Est, France
Caroline Lapp
1849–1899

I assume he died in Drusenheim in 1962 (based on what I can see on Filae).
 
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I assume he died in Drusenheim in 1962 (based on what I can see on Filae).

I don't think he is on Filae. The only record of a Eugène Ursch who died in Drusenheim that I can see there, is from the INSEE "files of deaths" and concerns a guy born on 8 Apr 1899, who died on 3 Mar 1983. INSEE data start with people who died in 1970 -- they won't have someone who died in 1962.

Did he actually ever come back to France...? I find him presented as the (then current) director of the botanical garden of Tsimbazaza as late as 1961 -- e.g. Mémoires, Adansonia.
 
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His listing in A HISTORICAL RECORD of AUTHORS of CACTUS & SUCCULENT seems to infer he died in Madagascar: "Ursch, Eugène (1882–1962); {Ursch}; French botanist; forester in Mada 1928–56; dir of Bot Garden at Tananarive, Mada 1956~"
 
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