Person
Glauert, Ludwig (1879 - 1963)
- Born
- 5 May 1879
Ecclesall, Yorkshire, England - Died
- 1 February 1963
Perth, Western Australia, Australia - Occupation
- Museum director and Palaeontologist
Summary
Ludwig Glauert was a geologist and palaeontologist who became Director of the Western Australian Museum 1954 - 1956 after many years as Curator of Biological Collections. For much of his time at the Museum, Glauert worked with minimal staff and funds. On arrival in Western Australia in 1908 he joined the Mines Department but in 1910 was seconded to the Museum to work on the Pleistocene fossils in the Mammoth Cave in the State's southwest. This enormous deposit included 34 species of Australia's extinct megafauna including the giant echidna and marsupial lion. Other research carried out by Glauert was on shakes and fishes, and he was recognised as an authority on scorpions. Glauert was an active member of local scientific societies and served as President of the Royal Society of Western Australia and the Western Australian Naturalists Club.
Details
Chronology
- 1900
- Career position - Fellow, Geological Society of London
- 1908
- Life event - Migrated to Australia
- 1908 - 1909
- Career position - Secretary, Natural History and Science Society of Western Australia
- 1908 - 1910
- Career position - Geologist, Western Australian Mines Department
- 1909 - 1912
- Career position - Member of Council, Natural History and Science Society of Western Australia
- 1910 - 1914
- Career position - Scientific Assistant to the Director, Western Australian Museum
- 1914 - 1920
- Career position - Keeper of Geology and Ethnology, Western Australian Museum
- 1920 - 1954
- Career position - Keeper of Biological Collections, Western Australian Museum
- 1924 - 1946
- Career position - Founding Member, Western Australian Naturalists Club
- 1929 - 1930
- Career position - President, Western Australian Naturalists Club
- 1933 - 1934
- Career position - President, Royal Society of Western Australia
- 1945
- Award - Kelvin Medal, Royal Society of Western Australia
- 1946 - 1963
- Award - Fellow, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
- 1946 - 1963
- Award - Life Member Western Australian Naturalists Club
- 1947 - 1949
- Career position - President, Royal Society of Western Australia
- 1948
- Award - Australian Natural History Medallion, Field Naturalists Club of Victoria
- 1951
- Career position - Patron, Western Australian Naturalists Club
- 1953 - 1963
- Award - Honorary Life Member, Royal Society of Western Australia
- 1954 - 1956
- Career position - Director, Western Australian Museum
- 1956
- Life event - Retired
- 1960
- Award - Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
Related entries
Archival resources
Western Australian Museum
- Ludwig Glauert - Records, 1910 - 1957; Western Australian Museum. Details
Published resources
Book Sections
- Jenkins, C.F.H., 'Glaubert, Ludwig (1879-1963), museum curator' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 9: 1891 - 1939 Gil-Las, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1983), pp. 25-26. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090024b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Glauert, L., 'The Ornithological Collecting of Dr. L. Preiss in 1839', Western Australian Naturalist, 1 (1948), 147-148. Details
- Serventy, D. L., 'Ludwig Glauert - Museum Director and Naturalist', Western Australian Naturalist, 5 (1957), 148-165. Details
- Serventy, D. L., 'Obituary: L. Glauert, MBE', Western Australian Naturalist, 8 (8) (1963), 189-193. Details
- Serventy, Donimic Louis, 'L. Glauert. [obituary of Ludwig Glauert, Director Emeritus of the Western Australian Museum]', Emu, 63 (1) (1963), 74-75. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1215297. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/92883939. Details
- 'Glauert, Ludwig (1879-1963)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-543624. Details
See also
- Johnstone, R. E., 'A history of ornithology at the Western Australian Museum' in Contributions to the History of Australasian Ornithology, Davis, William E.; Recher, Harry E.; Boles, Walter E.; and Jackson, Jerome A., eds (Cambridge, Mass.: Nuttall Ornithological Club, 2008), pp. 165-98. Details
Gavan McCarthy [P004098] and Helen Cohn
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 6 October 2023
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