Johann Andreas Naumann (13 April 1744 – 15 May 1826) was a German farmer and an amateur

naturalist Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms, including animals, fungi, and plants, in their natural environment, leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study. A person who studies natural history is cal ...

. He was the father of

Johann Friedrich Naumann Johann Friedrich Naumann (14 February 1780 – 15 August 1857) was a German scientist, engraver, and editor. He is regarded as the founder of scientific ornithology in Europe. He published ''The Natural History of German Birds'' (1820–1844) ...

and geologist Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann. He wrote an important book on the

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s of Germany entitled ''Naturgeschichte der Vögel Deutschlands'' (1804), and his name has been commemorated in the Latin names of the birds

lesser kestrel The lesser kestrel (''Falco naumanni'') is a small falcon. This species breeds from the Mediterranean across Afghanistan and Central Asia, to China and Mongolia. It is a summer bird migration, migrant, wintering in Africa and Pakistan and someti ...

, ''Falco naumanni,'' and the Naumann's thrush, ''Turdus naumanni.''

External links

Naturgeschichte der Vögel Deutschlands, nach einigen Erfahrungen entworfen &c. (Naumann, et al., 1822) Vol 2.T.
1744 births 1826 deaths People from Südliches Anhalt 18th-century farmers 18th-century German naturalists {{Germany-scientist-stub