Jean Louis Cabanis (8 March 1816 – 20 February 1906) was a German ornithologist. Cabanis was born in

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to an old Huguenot family who had moved from France. Little is known of his early life. He studied at the University of Berlin from 1835 to 1839, and then travelled to

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, returning in 1841 with a large natural history collection. He was assistant and later director of the Natural History Museum of Berlin (which was at the time the Berlin University Museum), taking over from Martin Lichtenstein. He founded the '' Journal für Ornithologie'' in 1853, editing it for the next forty-one years, when he was succeeded by his son-in-law Anton Reichenow. He died in

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. A number of birds are named after him, including

Cabanis's bunting Cabanis's bunting (''Emberiza cabanisi'') is a species of bird in the family Emberizidae. It is found across most of sub-Saharan Africa in its natural habitats of subtropical or tropical dry forests and dry savannah. The common name and Latin ...

''Emberiza cabanisi'',

Cabanis's spinetail Cabanis's spinetail (''Synallaxis cabanisi'') is a species of bird in the family Furnariidae. The common name and Latin binomial commemorates the German ornithologist Jean Louis Cabanis. Range and habitat It is found in the Andes' eastern slo ...

''Synallaxis cabanisi'',

Azure-rumped tanager The azure-rumped tanager or Cabanis's tanager (''Poecilostreptus cabanisi'') is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. It is a local resident in humid broadleaf forests and adjacent plantations of the Pacific slope of western Guatemala and s ...

''Poecilostreptus cabanisi'' and

Cabanis's greenbul Cabanis's greenbul (''Phyllastrephus cabanisi''), also known as Cabanis's bulbul, is a species of songbird in the bulbul family, Pycnonotidae. It is found in east-central and south-central Africa. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical ...

''Phyllastrephus cabanisi''.

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1816 births 1906 deaths German ornithologists Scientists from Berlin People from the Province of Brandenburg Humboldt University of Berlin alumni Humboldt University of Berlin faculty Journal of Ornithology editors {{ornithologist-stub