Hans Albert Hochbaum
ornithologist
Hans Albert Hochbaum (February 9, 1911, Greeley – March 2, 1988, Portage la Prairie) was an American bird artist, writer, ornithologist and conservationist known for his work on wetland birds and the wildlife of the Canadian Arctic. He wrote several popular books on wetlands and wildfowl and was renowned for his artistry both in scratchboard illustrations and paintings.
Hochbaum was born in Greeley, Colorado, to Hans Weller and Martha Schenck. His father was famous for the idea of victory gardens which helped meet food needs during World War II. and went to school at Boise, Idaho, and Washington DC before studying art at Cornell University while also obtaining a BS in zoology studying under Arthur A. Allen. He worked at the US National Park Service and moved to the Delta Waterfowl Research Station in Manitoba in 1938 as science director. The station had been established in 1931 and his research there led to an MS degree in wildlife management in 1941 under Aldo Leopold. He also illustrated and wrote The Canvasback on a Prairie Marsh (1944) which won him the Literary Award of the Wildlife Society for that year. The American Ornithological Society honored him with a Brewster Medal in 1945. At Delta, he directed research by students from numerous universities and became an honorary professor at the University of Manitoba in 1958. Hochbaum received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1961 and an honorary LLD in 1962.
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