Adolph Nehrkorn (29 December 1841, in Riddagshausen, today part of

Braunschweig Braunschweig () or Brunswick ( , from Low German ''Brunswiek'' , Braunschweig dialect: ''Bronswiek'') is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany, north of the Harz Mountains at the farthest navigable point of the river Oker, which connects it to the Nor ...

– 8 April 1916, in Braunschweig) was a German

ornithologist Ornithology is a branch of zoology that concerns the "methodological study and consequent knowledge of birds with all that relates to them." Several aspects of ornithology differ from related disciplines, due partly to the high visibility and th ...

and collector of bird eggs. Adolph's father worked at the Abbey in Riddagshausen. His early schooling was at Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig. After working for some years as a farmer, he went to study at the

University of Berlin Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (german: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a German public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin. It was established by Frederick William III on the initiative o ...

. In 1866 he married Ellen Streichenberg. He took a great interest in birds, collecting their eggs. His large collection of eggs was bequeathed to the Berlin Zoological Museum (which in the present day is the Berlin's Natural History Museum). The crimson-crowned flowerpecker (''Dicaeum nehrkorni'') and the Sangihe white-eye (''Zosterops nehrkorni'') are two avian species named in his honor.Full text of "Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club"
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Katalog der Eiersammlung, nebst Beschreibungeh der aussereuropchen Eier. by Adolph Nehrkorn 1910
German ornithologists Egg collectors 1841 births 1916 deaths Scientists from Braunschweig People from the Duchy of Brunswick Oologists {{ornithologist-stub