Kurt Floericke

Kurt Ehrenreich Floericke (also spelled Curt and/or Flöricke; 23 March 1869, in Zeitz – 29 October 1934, in Stuttgart) was a German naturalist and author of numerous popular science books.

Floericke was born in Zeitz to Kurt Paul from Brandenburg and Selma Berta née Hüller from Thuringia.

[1] Disappointed by all this Floericke began to travel across Bosnia, Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Asia Minor and Palestine.

Floericke inspired the formation of the Süddeutsche Vogelwarte, the South German Ornithological Institute and was involved in establishing a bird observatory at Radolfzell on Lake Constance.

Floericke was a Freemason and belonged to the "Masonic Association of the Rising Sun" and published the magazine "Sonnenstrahlen" from 1908 to 1922.