Albrecht Manegold

Manegold studied biology at the Free University of Berlin.{{Cite journal|last1=Mayr|first1=Gerald|author-link=Gerald Mayr|last2=Manegold|first2=Albrecht|date=1 April 2004|title=The oldest European fossil songbird from the early Oligocene of Germany|url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s00114-004-0509-9|journal=Naturwissenschaften|volume=91|issue=4|pages=173–177|doi=10.1007/s00114-004-0509-9|pmid=15085274|bibcode=2004NW.....91..173M|s2cid=31582847|issn=0028-1042|access-date=30 November 2021|archive-date=26 April 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220426184837/https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00114-004-0509-9|url-status=live}} He completed his PhD thesis in 2005, on the phylogeny and evolution of the Coraciiformes (kinfishers, bee-eaters and allies), Piciformes (woodpeckers and allies), and Passeriformes (perching birds).{{Cite journal|last=Mayr|first=Gerald|date=October 2005|title=SOCIETY OF AVIAN PALEONTOLOGY AND EVOLUTION {{!}} Newsletter nº 19|url=http://www2.nrm.se/ve/birds/sape/newsletter2005.pdf|journal=Society of Avian Paleontology|pages=1–12|access-date=30 November 2021|archive-date=30 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211130213925/http://www2.nrm.se/ve/birds/sape/newsletter2005.pdf|url-status=live}} He worked at Senckenberg Research Institute. He is presently the curator of the vertebrate collection of the State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe, with research focus on fossil birds of the Maghreb and South Africa and paleornithological reconstruction.{{Cite web|title=Dr. Albrecht Manegold, Dipl.-Biol. {{!}} Kurator Wirbeltiere|url=https://www.smnk.de/museum/mitarbeiterliste/mitarbeiter-detailansicht/?S=1&tx_psbaddress_address%5Baction%5D=show&tx_psbaddress_address%5Baddress%5D=229&tx_psbaddress_address%5Bcontroller%5D=Address&cHash=2e680b7786b2fe1362d3b102c6c1f5da|url-status=live|access-date=30 November 2021|website=Kulturkundemuseum Karlsruhe|language=de|archive-date=30 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211130213933/https://www.smnk.de/museum/mitarbeiterliste/mitarbeiter-detailansicht/?S=1&tx_psbaddress_address%5Baction%5D=show&tx_psbaddress_address%5Baddress%5D=229&tx_psbaddress_address%5Bcontroller%5D=Address&cHash=2e680b7786b2fe1362d3b102c6c1f5da}}

Manegold described the extinct treecreeper Certhia rummeli from a fossilized right tarsometatarsus found in karstic fissure fillings in Petersbuch, Bavaria.{{sfn|Manegold|2008a}} The fossil woodpecker Australopicus nelsonmandelai, found at the Langebaanweg fossil site in South Africa, and representing the oldest known woodpecker in Africa, was described and named by Manegold for South African president Nelson Mandela's 94th birthday.{{Cite web|date=7 July 2012|title=Woodpecker fossil named for Mandela on eve of his birthday|url=https://phys.org/news/2012-07-woodpecker-fossil-mandela-eve-birthday.html|url-status=live|access-date=30 November 2021|website=phys.org|language=en|archive-date=30 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211130213916/https://phys.org/news/2012-07-woodpecker-fossil-mandela-eve-birthday.html}}{{Cite journal|last1=Manegold|first1=Albrecht|last2=Louchart|first2=Antoine|date=2012|title=Biogeographic and paleoenvironmental implications of a new woodpecker species (Aves, Picidae) from the early Pliocene of South Africa|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2012.664597|journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology|language=en|volume=32|issue=4|pages=926–938|doi=10.1080/02724634.2012.664597|bibcode=2012JVPal..32..926M |s2cid=85421020|issn=0272-4634|access-date=30 November 2021|archive-date=30 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211130213916/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2012.664597|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|date=17 July 2012|title=Unusual accolade for Mandela|url=https://www.news24.com/news24/unusual-accolade-for-mandela-20120717|url-status=live|access-date=30 November 2021|website=News24|language=en|archive-date=30 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211130213931/https://www.news24.com/news24/unusual-accolade-for-mandela-20120717}}

• 2007: Bernhard Rensch Prize for his dissertation work on phylogeny and evolution of Coraciiformes, Piciformes, and Passeriformes.{{Cite web|date=2021|title=GfBS: Preisträger des Bernhard-Rensch Preises der GfBS|url=https://www.gfbs-home.de/ueber-uns/auszeichnungen/bisherige-preistraegerinnen-und-preistraeger|url-status=live|access-date=30 November 2021|website=Gesellschaft für Biologische Systematik|archive-date=30 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211130213923/https://www.gfbs-home.de/ueber-uns/auszeichnungen/bisherige-preistraegerinnen-und-preistraeger}}
• 2008: Maria Koepcke Prize for his work in creating a new classification system of passerine birds based on morphological characteristics in bone structure, clarifying relationships within living birds and allowing for assignment of extinct representatives of extant families.{{Cite journal|date=2008|editor-last=Quaisser|editor-first=Christiane|title=Deutsche Ornithologen-Gesellschaft {{!}} Bericht über die 141. Jahresversammlung 1. – 6. Oktober 2008 in Bremen|journal=Vogelwarte|language=de|volume=46|issue=4|pages=247–392}}

• Manegold A. (2020). New results on birds from the Early Pleistocene site of Untermassfeld. In: {{cite book | author=Kahlke | title=Das Pleistozän von Untermassfeld bei Meiningen (Thüringen) | publisher=Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums | publication-place=Mainz | year=2020 | isbn=978-3-88467-324-9 | oclc=1196895360 | language=de}}
• {{cite journal | last1=Pavia | first1=Marco | last2=Manegold | first2=Albrecht | last3=Haarhoff | first3=Pippa | title=Early Pliocene owls (Strigiformes, Aves) from Langebaanweg, South Africa, with first evidence of the genus Athene in Africa South of the Sahara and the description of a new species of Tyto | journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica | publisher=Polska Akademia Nauk Instytut Paleobiologii (Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences) | year=2014 | issn=0567-7920 | doi=10.4202/app.00077.2014| s2cid=55448837 | doi-access=free }}
• {{cite journal | last=Manegold | first=Albrecht | editor-last=Rasmussen | editor-first=Pamela | title=Two new parrot species (Psittaciformes) from the early Pliocene of Langebaanweg, South Africa, and their palaeoecological implications | journal=Ibis | publisher=Wiley | volume=155 | issue=1 | date=6 December 2012 | issn=0019-1019 | doi=10.1111/ibi.12009 | pages=127–139}}
• {{cite journal | last1=Manegold | first1=Albrecht | last2=Pavia | first2=Marco | last3=Haarhoff | first3=Pippa | title=A new species ofAegypiusvulture (Aegypiinae, Accipitridae) from the early Pliocene of South Africa | journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology | publisher=Informa UK Limited | volume=34 | issue=6 | date=19 September 2014 | issn=0272-4634 | doi=10.1080/02724634.2014.863204 | pages=1394–1407| bibcode=2014JVPal..34.1394M | s2cid=85645566 }}
• {{cite journal | last1=Manegold | first1=Albrecht | last2=Zelenkov | first2=Nikita | title=A new species of Aegypius vulture from the early Pliocene of Moldova is the earliest unequivocal evidence of Aegypiinae in Europe | journal=Paläontologische Zeitschrift | publisher=Springer Science and Business Media LLC | volume=89 | issue=3 | date=21 August 2014 | issn=0031-0220 | doi=10.1007/s12542-014-0242-4 | pages=529–534| s2cid=129035036 }}
• Manegold A., Louchart A., Carrier J. & Elzanowski A. (2013). The Early Pliocene avifauna of Langebaanweg (South Africa): a review and update. In: Göhlich, U.B., Kroh, A. (eds.) Paleornithological Research 2013 – Proceedings of the 8th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution: 135–152.
• Manegold A., Podsiadlowski L. (2013). Erste morphologische und molekulare Untersuchungen zur phylogenetischen Stellung des Grünköpfchens Agapornis swindernianus. Vogelwarte 51: 348.
• {{cite journal | last1=Manegold | first1=Albrecht | last2=Töpfer | first2=Till | title=The systematic position of Hemicircus and the stepwise evolution of adaptations for drilling, tapping and climbing up in true woodpeckers (Picinae, Picidae) | journal=Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research | publisher=Wiley | volume=51 | issue=1 | date=22 October 2012 | issn=0947-5745 | doi=10.1111/jzs.12000 | pages=72–82| doi-access=free }}
• {{cite journal | last1=Manegold | first1=Albrecht | last2=Louchart | first2=Antoine | title=Biogeographic and paleoenvironmental implications of a new woodpecker species (Aves, Picidae) from the early Pliocene of South Africa | journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology | publisher=Informa UK Limited | volume=32 | issue=4 | date=26 June 2012 | issn=0272-4634 | doi=10.1080/02724634.2012.664597 | pages=926–938| bibcode=2012JVPal..32..926M | s2cid=85421020 }}
• {{Cite journal|last=Manegold|first=Albrecht|date=2008a|title=Passerine diversity in the late Oligocene of Germany: earliest evidence for the sympatric coexistence of Suboscines and Oscines|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1474-919X.2008.00802.x|journal=Ibis|language=en|volume=150|issue=2|pages=377–387|doi=10.1111/j.1474-919X.2008.00802.x|issn=1474-919X}}
• {{Cite journal|last=Manegold|first=Albrecht|date=2008b|title=Earliest fossil record of the Certhioidea (treecreepers and allies) from the early Miocene of Germany|url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10336-007-0263-9|journal=Journal of Ornithology|language=en|volume=149|issue=2|pages=223–228|doi=10.1007/s10336-007-0263-9|s2cid=11900733|issn=2193-7192}}
• {{Cite journal|last=Manegold|first=Albrecht|date=2006|title=Two Additional Synapomorphies of Grebes Podicipedidae and Flamingos Phoenicopteridae|journal=Acta Ornithologica|volume=41|issue=1|pages=79–82|doi=10.3161/068.041.0113|s2cid=86248914|issn=0001-6454|doi-access=free}}
• {{Cite journal|last1=Mayr|first1=Gerald|last2=Manegold|first2=Albrecht|date=1 August 2006|title=A Small Suboscine-Like Passeriform Bird from the Early Oligocene of France|journal=The Condor|volume=108|issue=3|pages=717–720|doi=10.1093/condor/108.3.717|issn=0010-5422|doi-access=free}}

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