Jakob Gottlieb Ferdinand Heine (9 March 1809, in

Halberstadt Halberstadt ( Eastphalian: ''Halverstidde'') is a town in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, the capital of Harz district. Located north of the Harz mountain range, it is known for its old town center that was greatly destroyed by Allied bombi ...

– 28 March 1894) 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. 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. Cabanis was born in Berlin to an old Huguenot family who had moved from France. Little is known of his early life. He studied at the University of Berlin from 18 ...

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 Jakob Gottlieb Ferdinand Heine (9 March 1809, in Halberstadt – 28 March 1894) was a German ornithologist and collector. Heine had one of the largest private collection of birds in the mid-19th century. The collection now housed at the Heineanum ...

(1840-1920) was also an ornithologist.

Eponymy

* '' Calandrella heinei''; Homeyer, 1873. * '' Clytorhynchus vitiensis heinei''; Finsch & Hartlaub, 1870. * ''

Tangara heinei The black-capped tanager (''Stilpnia heinei'') is one of the many species of Neotropical realm, Neotropical bird in the family Thraupidae. It lives in mountains of Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela year-round. This bird can often be found in open ...

'' (Black-capped tanager) Cabanis, 1850. * '' Zoothera heinei'' (Russet-tailed thrush) Cabanis, 1850.

References

External links

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