Johann Friedrich Naumann (14 February 1780 – 15 August 1857) was a German

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, engraver, and editor. He is regarded as the founder of scientific

ornithology 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 ...

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. He published ''The Natural History of German Birds'' (1820–1844) and ''The Eggs of German Birds'' (1818–1828). His father

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 ...

(1744–1826) was a naturalist, and his brother Carl Andreas Naumann (1786–1854) was also an ornithologist. The German ornithological society named its journal ''Naumannia''. 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 ...

(''Falco naumanni'') is also named for him.

Biography

Johann Friedrich Naumann was born in Ziebigk, about 10 km southeast of Köthen, on 14 February 1780, as the son of Johann Andreas Naumann, a well-known natural historian. After attending school at

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, he returned home and devoted himself to the study of agriculture, botany, geology, and ornithology. His later work was devoted more exclusively to the ornithology of Germany. In 1822 he published his ''Naturgeschichte der Vögel Deutschlands'' (13 vols, Leipzig (1822), illustrated with plates Naumann engraved himself. He was also the author of many other ornithological works. In 1821, Naumann sold his bird collection to

Frederick Ferdinand, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen Frederick Ferdinand of Anhalt-Köthen (25 June 1769, Pless – 23 August 1830, Köthen) was a German prince, Ascanian ruler of the principality of Anhalt-Pless and, from 1818, of the duchy of Anhalt-Köthen. He was the second son of Frederick ...

for 2,000 Taler. He was appointed curator of the ducal collection in the Ferdinandsbau in Schloss (Castle) Köthen, which has been accessible to the public since 1835.

References

Sources

*Wilhelm Heß: ADB Vol. 23. Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1886, p. 315 *Paul Gottschalk: Johann Friedrich Naumann, in: Mitteldeutsche Lebensbilder, Vol. 1, ''Lebensbilder des 19. Jahrhunderts,'' Magdeburg 1926, pp. 65–70.

Gallery

Image:Johann Friedrich Naumann - Baldie.JPG, From ''Naturgeschichte der Vögel Mitteleuropas (Natural History of the Birds of Central Europe).'' File:Accipiter gentilis, Naumann 1899.jpg, Habicht (''Accipiter gentilis''). Engraving by Johann Friedrich Naumann. File:Bartramia longicauda.jpg, Upland sandpiper Bartramie ou maubèche des champs by Naumann. File:Falco eleonorae NAUMANN.jpg,

Falco eleonorae Eleonora's falcon (''Falco eleonorae'') is a medium-sized falcon. It belongs to the hobby group, a rather close-knit number of similar falcons often considered a subgenus ''Hypotriorchis''. The sooty falcon is sometimes considered its closest re ...

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