Karl Johann Nepomuk Ernst Luchs (3 September 1811 – 3 January 1886) was a German physician in the

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spa town of Bad Warmbrunn. He was also a naturalist, aviculturist, and collector of natural history specimens. Two species of birds were named in his honour. Luchs was born in Warmbrunn, now

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. He studied medicine at the University of Breslau with a dissertation ''De sphygmologia'' (1836) and worked as a spa doctor at Warmbrunn throughout the rest of his life. He was a keen aviculturist and also made a collection of bird skins which he sold in 1878 to Ludwig Graf von Schaffgotsch (1842–1891). The ornithologist Otto Finsch named ''

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'' (now usually treated as a subspecies of the monk parakeet ''Myiopsitta monachus luchsi'') after him.

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named a finch species as ''Aegintha luchsi'' in 1882 which is now thought to be a hybrid of two

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species. Luchs was elected member of the

Leopoldina academy The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (german: Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften), short Leopoldina, is the national academy of Germany, and is located in Halle (Saale). Founded ...

in 1848 and was a member of the German ornithological society from 1870.

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