Johann Gottlieb Fleischer (15 October 1797 – 22 April 1838) was a German
botanist
Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...
and
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 ...
.
He wrote:
*with
C.P. Laurop and V.F Fischer: ''Sylvan, ein Jahrbuch fur Forstmänner, Jäger und Jagdfreunde'' (1813 to 1822);
*with
E. Lindemann: ''Flora der deutschen Ostseeprovinzen Esth-, Liv- und Kurland''. Mitau, Leipzig (1839);
*with
A. Bunge: ''Flora von Esth-, Liv- und Kurland''. Mitau, Leipzig (1853).
Fleischer described the
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 sometim ...
in 1818, naming it ''naumanni'' for his friend
Johann Andreas Naumann
Johann Andreas Naumann (13 April 1744 – 15 May 1826) was a German farmer and an amateur naturalist. He was the father of Johann Friedrich Naumann and geologist Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann. He wrote an important book on the birds of Ger ...
.
1797 births
1838 deaths
19th-century German botanists
German ornithologists
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