Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee was an American ornithologist.
Background
Rodolphe de Chaensee was born on January 4, 1901 in Rome, Italy. He was the son of Frederick Mayer and Matilda de Schauens. He spent his childhood in his father's estate, in a castle near Lucerne. Later his family moved to the United States in 1913.
Education
Rodolphe de Schaensee studied at the Hoosac School in New York.
Rodolphe De Schauensee was curator of birds at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia for nearly fifty years. He conducted extensive specimen-collecting expeditions to Brazil, Thailand, Burma, southwestern Africa, the Kalahari Desert, the East Indies, and Guatemala that increased the Academy’s avian holdings by more than half during his administration. De Schauensee also wrote several field guides on the birds of Colombia, Venezuela, and South America in general.