Arnoldo de Winkelried Bertoni

Arnoldo de Winkelried Bertoni (December 28, 1878 – 1973), also known as Arnaldo da Winkelried, was a Paraguayan zoologist born in Switzerland.[1][2]

Arnoldo de Winkelried Bertoni
Born(1878-12-28)December 28, 1878
Switzerland
Died1973(1973-00-00) (aged 94–95)
Paraguay
NationalityParaguayan
Other namesArnaldo de Winkelried
Occupationzoologist

Biography

He was better known as Arnaldo de Wilkelried, his name given in honor of the Swiss soldier Arnold von Wilkelried who died at the Battle of Sempach in 1386. In 1887, he emigrated to Paraguay along with his family. He first began studying zoology with his father, the naturalist Moisés Santiago Bertoni in the neighborhood of Guillermo Tell, now called Puerto Bertoni in the Alto Paraná Department of Paraguay, along the Paraná River.

Between 1903 and 1906, he served as a professor of zootechnics and zoology at the School of Agriculture and Model Farm, which was opened in 1897 with his father as its director. In 1917, he decided to leave Puerto Bertoni and together with his brother Guillermo Tell they travelled to Asunción where he began to work on his own scientific research, investigating the Paraguayan fauna, chiefly insects (Eumeninae, Polistinae, Masarinae, Sphecinae and Trigonalidae), as well as vertebrates, especially birds. He also made contributions in paleontology and archaeology.

From 1930 to 1940, he was a professor of zoology, zootechnics, entomology, and plant pathology at the Escuela Superior de Agricultura and at the Escuela Nacional de Agricultura Mariscal Estigarribia. He was a founding member of the Guaraní Academy of Science and Culture.[2]

Publications
  • Bertoni, Arnoldo de Winkelried (January 1901). Aves nuevas del Paraguay: continuación á Azara. Asunción, Paraguay: Talleres Nacionales de H. Kraus. pp. 1–216. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.13398.
  • Vocabulario zoológico guaraní (Con etimología y nomenclatura técnica). 1910.
  • Contribución a la biología de las avispas y abejas del Paraguay (Hymenoptera). 1911.
  • Catálogo sistemático de los vertebrados del Paraguay. 1912.
  • Fauna paraguaya: catálogos sistemáticos de los vertebrados del Paraguay: peces, batracios, reptiles, aves, y mamíferos conocidos hasta 1913. Asunción: Establecimiento Gráfico M. Brossa, 1914.
  • Aves paraguayas poco conocidas. 1925.
  • Notas biológicas y sistemáticas sobre algunos insectos útiles. Asunción: Dirección de Agricultura y Defensa Agrícola, 1926.
  • Nueva forma de psitácidos del Paraguay. 1927.

References
  1. Rios-Diaz, Sergio D.; Garcete-Barrett, Bolivar R. (June 2014). "Homenaje a A.W. Bertoni en el centenario de sus "Calálogos Sistemáticos"" [Homage to A. W. Bertoni for the centenary of his "Systematic Catalogues"] (PDF). Boletín del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural del Paraguay (in Spanish). 18 (1): 3. ISSN 1680-4031. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
  2. "Arnoldo da Winkelried Bertoni". Conociendo a la gente.
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