About Carl Friedrich Bruch
Lived 1789 – 1857 (aged 68). Carl Friedrich Bruch was a German ornithologist, naturalist and notary.
Carl Friedrich Bruch (March 11, 1789 – December 21, 1857) was a German ornithologist. He was the younger brother of bryologist Philipp Bruch (1781–1847).
Bruch was born in Zweibrücken. Up until 1855, he worked as a notary in Mainz. He was the author of numerous articles in the journals Isis and Journal für Ornithologie.
In 1828, he proposed a system of trinomial nomenclature for species, in contrast to the binomial system of Carl Linnaeus. The following are a list of ornithological species described by Bruch: Dalmatian pelican, (Pelecanus crispus), 1832 Hartlaub's gull, (Chroicocephalus hartlaubii), 1853 Red-legged kittiwake, (Rissa brevirostris), 1853 Sooty gull (Ichthyaetus hemprichii), 1853.
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German ornithologist (1789–1857)
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Carl Friedrich Bruch was born on 11 March 1789 in Zweibrücken.
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Carl Friedrich Bruch died on 21 December 1857 in Mainz.
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Carl Friedrich Bruch was an ornithologist, naturalist and notary.
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Carl Friedrich Bruch was German.
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