Jakob Gottlieb Ferdinand Heine (9 March 1809 in

Halberstadt Halberstadt (; Eastphalian dialect, Eastphalian: ''Halverstidde'') is a town in the state of Saxony-Anhalt in central Germany, the capital of Harz (district), Harz district. Located north of the Harz mountain range, it is known for its old town ...

– 28 March 1894) was a German

ornithologist Ornithology, from Ancient Greek ὄρνις (''órnis''), meaning "bird", and -logy from λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study", is a branch of zoology dedicated to the study of birds. Several aspects of ornithology differ from related discip ...

and collector. Heine had one of the largest private collection of birds in the mid-19th century. The collection now housed at the Heineanum Halberstadt Museum in

(27,000 specimens, 15,000 books).The Eponym Dictionary of Birds
by Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson

Jean Cabanis Jean Louis Cabanis (8 March 1816 – 20 February 1906) was a German ornithologist. He worked at the bird collections of the Natural History Museum in Berlin becoming its first curator of birds in 1850. He founded the ''Journal für Ornithologie ...

wrote about the collection i
''Museum Heineanum. Verzeichniss der ornithologischen Sammlung des Oberamtmann Ferdinand Heine, auf Gut St. Burchard vor Halberstadt''
(4 volumes, 1850–63). His son Ferdinand Heine (1840-1920) was also an ornithologist.

Eponymy

* '' Calandrella heinei''; Homeyer, 1873. * '' Clytorhynchus vitiensis heinei''; Finsch & Hartlaub, 1870. * '' Tangara heinei'' (Black-capped tanager) Cabanis, 1850. * '' Zoothera heinei'' (Russet-tailed thrush) Cabanis, 1850.

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Nomenclator Musei Heineani Ornithologici
1809 births 1894 deaths People from Halberstadt German ornithologists People from the Province of Saxony {{germany-zoologist-stub