Christian Ludwig Brehm (24 January 1787 – 23 June 1864) was a German

pastor A pastor (abbreviated as "Pr" or "Ptr" , or "Ps" ) is the leader of a Christian congregation who also gives advice and counsel to people from the community or congregation. In Lutheranism, Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy and ...

and ornithologist. He was the father of the

zoologist Zoology ()The pronunciation of zoology as is usually regarded as nonstandard, though it is not uncommon. is the branch of biology that studies the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and d ...

Alfred Brehm Alfred Edmund Brehm (; 2 February 1829 – 11 November 1884) was a German zoologist, writer, director of zoological gardens and the son of Christian Ludwig Brehm, a famous pastor and ornithologist. Through the book title ''Brehms Tierleb ...

Life

Brehm was born in Schönau near

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on 24 January 1787. He was educated at

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to be ordained as minister at Renthendorf in 1813 where he remained until his death on 23 June 1864. He wrote ''Beiträge zur Vogelkunde'' (1820–22), which described 104 species of German

bird Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweig ...

s in minute detail, and ''Handbuch der Naturgeschichte aller Vögel Deutschlands'' (1831) which described 900 bird species Brehm accumulated a collection of 15,000 birds until his death, which included samples from his son,

. Alfred collected these birds from Sudan, Egypt and throughout Europe. He offered these to the Berlin Zoological Museum on March 1835 because he feared that a storm would destroy his house, but the sale fell through. After his death they remained in the attic of his house, where

Otto Kleinschmidt Otto Kleinschmidt (13 December 1870 – 25 March 1954) was a German ornithologist, theologist and pastor. Career Kleinschmidt was born as the son of the factory overseer Adolph Kleinschmidt and his wife Elise (maiden name Dreydorf) in Geinsheim ...

discovered them some years later. Kleinschmidt persuaded Lord Rothschild to buy them in 1897; they consisted of 9000 skins, and the collection arrived at his

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on 1932. However, the collection returned to Germany, where it was moved to

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, located in

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Works

*''Beiträge zur Vogelkunde'' 3 Bde, ab Bd. 3 in collaboration with W. Schilling. Neustadt a. Orla 1820–1822. *''Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte aller europäischen Vögel'', 2 Bde.

Jena Jena () is a German city and the second largest city in Thuringia. Together with the nearby cities of Erfurt and Weimar, it forms the central metropolitan area of Thuringia with approximately 500,000 inhabitants, while the city itself has a po ...

1823-1824 *''Ornis oder das Neueste und Wichtigste der Vogelkunde''. Jena 1824–1827, first ornithologic journal. *''Handbuch der Naturgeschichte aller Vögel Deutschlands''. Ilmenau 1831.
''Handbuch für den Liebhaber der Stuben-, Haus- und aller der Zähmung werthen Vögel''
Ilmenau 1832. *''Der Vogelfang''. Leipzig 1836. *''Der vollständige Vogelfang''.

Weimar Weimar is a city in the state of Thuringia, Germany. It is located in Central Germany between Erfurt in the west and Jena in the east, approximately southwest of Leipzig, north of Nuremberg and west of Dresden. Together with the neighbouri ...

1855. *''Die Kunst, Vögel als Bälge zu bereiten''. Weimar 1842. *''Die Wartung, Pflege und Fortpflanzung der Canarienvögel''. Weimar 1855, 2. ed. Weimar 1865, 3. ed. Weimar 1872, 4. ed. Weimar 1883, 5. ed.. Weimar 1893. *''Die Naturgeschichte und Zucht der Tauben''. Weimar 1857. *(with E. Baldamus, John Wilhelm von Müller & J. F. Naumann) ''Verzeichnis der Vögel Europa's. als Tausch-Catalog eingerichtet''. Stuttgart 1852 *''Monographie der Papageien oder vollständige Naturgeschichte aller bis jetzt bekannten Papageien mit getreuen und ausgemalten Abbildungen, im Vereine mit anderen Naturforscher herausgegeben von C.L. Brehm''. Jena &

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1842-1855

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Website advertising the Brehm Memorial Center in Renthendorf
a museum in Brehm's home, and that of his family, including his son

{{DEFAULTSORT:Brehm, Christian 1787 births 1864 deaths German ornithologists People from Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg University of Jena alumni Zoological collectors

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