Background
Friedmann, Herbert was born on April 22, 1900 in Brooklyn. Son of Uriah M. and Mary (Behrmann) Friedmann.
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Friedmann, Herbert was born on April 22, 1900 in Brooklyn. Son of Uriah M. and Mary (Behrmann) Friedmann.
Bachelor of Science, College City New York, 1920; Doctor of Philosophy, Cornell Univercity, 1923.
He worked at the Smithsonian Institution for more than 30 years. In 1929 he became a fellow of the American Ornithologists" Union (AOU) and served as the President of the AOU from 1937 to 1939. He published 17 books and was noted for study of Avian brood parasites.
Young Friedman took advantage of educational and cultural opportunities offered in New York City, regularly visiting museums and taking advantage of standing room at the city"s centers for performing arts
The Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Bronx Zoo were among his favorite destinations. He joined a bird club during his high school years and kept detailed notes on birds that he observed.
He continued to study birds after entering the City College of New York at 16 years old and maintained a close association with the Museum of Natural History. While attending City College, Friedmann studied the "Weaving of the Red-Billed Weaver Bird in Captivity" at the Bronx Zoo.
That study was later published in Zoologica 2(16):355-72, his first published article.
Doctor William Beebe, then Honorary Curator of Birds and Director of the Department of Tropical Research at the zoo, was impressed by the work and encouraged Friedmann to apply for a scholarship to Cornell University. He got the scholarship and completed his Doctor of Philosophy in three years. His dissertation was on brood parasitism in cowbirds.
Postgraduate work
After graduation in 1923, Friedmann taught a summer course for the University of Virginia.
Foreign the next three years, he spent most of his time in South America and Africa studying parasitic birds on a postdoctoral grant from the National Research Council and Rockefeller Foundation. He taught courses at Brown University in 1925–1926 and at Amherst College in 1927–1929.
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In September 1929, Friedmann was appointed curator of birds at the National Museum of Natural History and continued to serve in that position until he was appointed as head curator of zoology in 1959.
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Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science (section president 1939), American Ornithologists Union (president 1937-1939). Member American Society Zoologists, American Society Naturalists, Washington Academy of Sciences (honorary diploma in biology 1940, vice president 1957), Biological Society Washington (president 1957-1958), Cooper Ornith. Society (division president 1967), National Academy of Sciences, Paleobiol.
Society Washington (president 1938), Deutsche Ornith. Gesellschaft (honorary), S. African Ornith. Union (honorary).
Son of Uriah M. and Mary (Behrmann) F. M. Karen Juul Vejlo, 1937. 1 daughter, Karen Alice (Mistress J.N. Beall).