Christian Ludwig Brehm (January 24, 1787 - June 23, 1864) was a Germanpastor and ornithologist. He was the father of Alfred Brehm. January 24 is the 24th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1787 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... June 23 is the 174th day of the year (175th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 191 days remaining. ... 1864 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... A pastor is the head minister or priest of a Christian church. ... Ornithology (from the Greek ornitha = chicken and logos = word/science) is the branch of biology concerned with the scientific study of birds. ... Categories: People stubs | 1829 births | 1884 deaths | German zoologists ...
Brehm was born near Gotha, and studied at the University of Jena. In 1813 he became the minister at Renthendorf, a village sixty miles south of Leipzig, where he remained until his death. His extensive writings included Beitrage zur Vogelkunde (1820-22), which described 104 species of German birds in minute detail, and Handbuch der Naturgeschichte aller Vogel Deutschlands (1831). Gotha may refer to: A district in the German state of Thuringia A town in the District of Gotha (its capital) A former Thuringian Dukedom, see Sachsen-Gotha the Gothaer Waggonfabrik Company. ... Friedrich Schiller University of Jena (FSU) is located in Jena, Thuringia in Germany and was named for the German writer Friedrich Schiller. ... Map of Germany showing Leipzig Leipzig [ˈlaiptsɪç] (Polish; Sorbian/Lusatian: Lipsk) is the largest city in the federal state (Bundesland) of Saxony in Germany. ...
Brehm accumulated a collection of 15,000 bird skins. He offered these to the Berlin Zoological Museum, but the sale fell through. After his death they remained in the attic of his house, where Otto Kleinschmidt discovered them some years later. Kleinschmidt persuaded Lord Rothschild to buy them, and the collection arrived at his museum in Tring in 1900. Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild (February 8, 1868 - August 27, 1937) was a British banker and zoologist from the international Rothschild financial dynasty. ... Tring is a small market town in the Chiltern Hills in Hertfordshire, England with a population 13,000. ...
Reference
The Bird Collectors, by Barbara and Richard Mearns ISBN 0124874401
Alfred Edmund Brehm (born February 2, 1829 in Unterrenthendorf, now called Renthendorf; died November 11, 1884 in Renthendorf) was a German zoologist and writer, the son of ChristianLudwigBrehm.
Alfred Brehm was brought up in the small Thuringian village Unterrenthendorf as the son of the minister ChristianLudwigBrehm and his second wife Bertha.
ChristianLudwigBrehm made a name for himself as an ornithologist by publications and an extensive collection of stuffed birds.
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