Christian Ludwig Brehm (January 24, 1787 – June 23, 1864) was a German

Germany

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 pastor

Pastor

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 and ornithologist. He was the father of Alfred Brehm

Alfred Brehm

Alfred Edmund Brehm was aGerman zoologist, natural history illustrator and writer, the son ofChristian Ludwig Brehm....

.

Brehm was born near Gotha

Gotha (town)

Gotha is a town in Thuringia, within the central core of Germany. It is the capital of the district of Gotha.- History :The town has existed at least since the 8th century, when it was mentioned in a document signed by Charlemagne as Villa Gotaha . Its importance derives from having been chosen in...

, and studied at the University of Jena. In 1813 he became the minister at Renthendorf

Renthendorf

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, a village sixty miles south of Leipzig

Leipzig

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, where he remained until his death. His extensive writings included Beitrage zur Vogelkunde (1820-22), which described 104 species of German bird

Bird

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s in minute detail, and Handbuch der Naturgeschichte aller Vogel Deutschlands (1831).

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

Otto Kleinschmidt

Otto Kleinschmidt was a German theologist, pastor and ornithologist. He introduced a typological species concept into German ornithology. His Formenkreis theory influenced the early ideas of Erwin Stresemann. Others have considered him one of the first biogeographers...

 discovered them some years later. Kleinschmidt persuaded Lord Rothschild to buy them, and the collection arrived at his Natural History Museum at Tring.

Works

• C. L. Brehm: Beiträge zur Vögelkunde 3 Bde, ab Bd. 3 in ollaboration with W. Schilling. - Neustadt a. Orla
  Neustadt an der Orla
  Neustadt an der Orla is a town in Saale-Orla-Kreis district, in Thuringia. It is situated at the small river Orla, 17 km north of Schleiz, and 25 km southeast of Jena.-Setting:...
  
   1820-1822.
• C. L. Brehm: Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte aller europäischen Vögel, 2 Bde. - Jena
  Jena
  Jena is a university city in central Germany on the river Saale. It has a population of approx. 103,000 and is the second largest city in the federal state of Thuringia, after Erfurt.-History:Jena was first mentioned in an 1182 document...
  
   1823-1824
• C. L. Brehm: Ornis oder das neueste und Wichtigste der Vögelkunde - Jena 1824-1827, first ornithologic journal.
• C. L. Brehm: Handbuch der Naturgeschichte alle Vögel Deutschlands - Ilmenau
  Ilmenau
  Ilmenau is a town located in the district of Ilm-Kreis, Thuringia, Germany.Ilmenau is situated in the valley of the Ilm river, at an altitude of 431 metres above sea level, and is the biggest town in Ilm-Kreis district, with 6,200 students studying at the Technische Universität Ilmenau. The...
  
   1831.
• C. L. Brehm: Handbuch für den Liebhaber der Stuben-, Haus- und aller der Zähmung werthen Vögel - Ilmenau 1832.
• C. L. Brehm: Der Vogelfang - Leipzig 1836.
• C. L. Brehm: Der vollständige Vogelfang - Weimar
  Weimar
  Weimar is a city in Germany famous for its cultural heritage. It is located in the federal state of Thuringia , north of the Thüringer Wald, east of Erfurt, and southwest of Halle and Leipzig. Its current population is approximately 65,000. The oldest record of the city dates from the year 899...
  
   1855.
• C. L. Brehm: Die Kunst, Vögel als Bälge zu bereiten - Weimar 1842.
• C. L. Brehm: Die Wartung, Pflege und Fortpflanzung der Canarienvögel - Weimar 1855, 2. Aufl. Weimar 1865, 3. Aufl. Weimar 1872, 4. Auflage Weimar 1883, 5. Aufl. Weimar 1893.
• C. L. Brehm: Die Naturgeschichte und Zucht der Tauben - Weimar 1857.
• E. Baldamus, C.L. Brehm, John Wilhelm von Müller & J.F. Naumann: Verzeichnis der Vögel Europa's. als Tausch-Catalog eingerichtet. - Stuttgart 1852
• C. L. Brehm: Monographie der Papageien oder vollständige Naturgeschichte aller bis jetzt bekannten Papageien mit getreuen und ausgemalten Abbildungen, im Vereine mit anderen Naturforscher herausgegeben von C.L. Brehm. - Jena & Paris
  Paris
  Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
  
  1842-1855

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