Carl Eduard Hellmayr was born on 29 January 1878 in
Vienna and studied at the
University of Vienna, although he did not complete his degree. After his studies he worked in Vienna, Munich, Berlin, Paris, Tring (England), and Chicago. He spent the years 1905–1908 studying
Baron Rothschild's private collection of natural history specimens at Tring, near London. There he received guidance from the German ornithologist
Ernst Hartert. ==References==