Oskar von Riesenthal
Julius Adolf Oskar von Riesenthal was a German forester, ornithologist, hunter and writer.
He was born in Breslau, Silesia, to a family of Austrian descent. His father died when he was a year old, and he moved with his mother to Oels, where he spent his childhood and early youth until matriculating from Gymnasium. He studied at the Eberswalde Forestry Academy in Neustadt-Eberswalde, becoming a Revierförster in the Tuchola Forest, where he began studying ornithology. In 1871 he became Oberförster in Altenkirchen, where he wrote his first book, Die Raubvögel Deutschlands und des angrenzenden Mitteleuropas. He later became Royal Forester for the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Domains in Charlottenburg, where he stayed until his death in 1898.
Works
Die Raubvögel Deutschlands und des angrenzenden Mitteleuropas, 1879.Das Waidwerk: Handbuch der Naturgeschichte, Jagd und Hege aller in Mitteleuropa Jagdbaren Thiere, 1880.Jagdlexikon, 1882.Die Kleine Jagd: Fur Jäger und Jagdliebhaber, 1884: he revised the fifth edition of this book by Friedrich Ernst JesterDie Kennzeichen der Vögel Mitteleuropas und angrenzender Gebiete, 1891.Bilder aus der Tucheler Heide: galgenhumoristische Gesänge; zur Erbaulichkeit aller Grünröcke und ihrer Freunde, 1896.Die Stiefel des Herrn Oberforstmeisters, Der verrückte Keiler, sowie andere lustige Geschichten und Gedichte aus dem Leben eines alten Forstmannes, published posthumously, 1903.Jägermeister
The first stanza from one of his poems, "Waidmannsheil", is printed on the Jägermeister bottle label.Waidmannsheil