About Ferdinand Heine
Lived 1809 – 1894 (aged 85). Ferdinand Heine was a German ornithologist and zoologist.
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 Halberstadt Museum in Halberstadt (27,000 specimens, 15,000 books). Jean Cabanis wrote about the collection in Museum Heineanum. Verzeichniss der ornithologischen Sammlung des Oberamtmann Ferdinand Heine, auf Gut St. Burchard vor Halberstadt (4 volumes, 1850–63). His son Ferdinand Heine (1840-1920) was also an ornithologist.
Eponymy Calandrella heinei; Homeyer, 1873. Clytorhynchus vitiensis heinei; Finsch & Hartlaub, 1870. Tangara heinei (Black-capped tanager) Cabanis, 1850. Zoothera heinei (Russet-tailed thrush) Cabanis, 1850.
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Who was Ferdinand Heine?
German ornithologist (1809–1894)
When was Ferdinand Heine born?
Ferdinand Heine was born on 9 March 1809 in Halberstadt.
When did Ferdinand Heine die?
Ferdinand Heine died on 28 March 1894 in Halberstadt.
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Ferdinand Heine was an ornithologist and zoologist.
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Ferdinand Heine was German.
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