Oscar Rudolph Neumann

Oscar Rudolph Neumann (1867 - May 17, 1946) was a German ornithologist.

Neumann travelled to Africa on several occasions, in particular between 1892 and 1894, and described many new African species. From 1900 to 1901 he traveled through Somaliland and southern Ethiopia with the German ornithologist Baron Carlo von Erlanger, clarifying the reports of earlier explorers and collecting numerous zoological specimens.

From 1908, financial difficulties forced Neumann to find employment in the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum, where he worked for many years. He fled in 1941 from Berlin to Cuba then to Chicago, where he worked the final years of his life as a curator in the Field Museum of Natural History.

Further reading

• Oscar Neumann, "From the Somali Coast through Southern Ethiopian to the Sudan", Geographical Journal, 20 (October 1902), pp. 373-398

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Name	Neumann, Oscar Rudolph
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Date of birth	1867
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Date of death	May 17, 1946
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