Wilhelm Meise (12 September 1901 - 24 August 2002) is a German ornithologist.
He studied at the University of Berlin from 1924 to 1928, and completed his dissertation on the distribution of the Carrion Crow and the Hooded Crow, and their hybridization, under the supervision of Professor Erwin Stresemann, (1889- 1972). He also analyzed the taxonomic and historical relationships between the sparrow and the Spanish sparrow, and the status of the sparrow crab. From 1929 until World War II, he was curator of vertebrates at the Dresden Museum of Natural History.
Meise's 170 publications are mostly about birds, but he's also interested in the taxonomy of scorpions, spiders, lizards, snakes and molluscs. He retired in 1972 and died at the age of 100 in 2002. change the code
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