Friedrich August Ludwig Thienemann ( 25 December 1793 , Freyburg

Freyburg, Germany

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 – 24 June 1858 , Dresden

Dresden

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) was a German physician

Physician

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 and naturalist

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Ludwig Thienemann was the son of Johann August Thienemann (1749–1812) and Johanne Eleonora Friederike née Schreiber (1757–1809). He graduated as a doctor in 1819 and then travelled in Europe for two years, spending thirteen months in Iceland

Iceland

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. He published a report on his travel in 1824-1827. In 1822, he moved to Leipzig

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 where he taught zoology in the university and he became curator the natural history collections in Dresden (Kustos Naturalien- sammlungen now in Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde Dresden

Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde Dresden

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) in Dresden in 1825. He was the founder of the ornithological newspaper Rhea whose two numbers appeared in 1846 and in 1849.

Works

• 1828 Lehrbuch der Zoologie
• 1845 Einhundert Tafeln colorirter Abbildungen on Vogeleiern. Zur Fortpflanzungsgeschichte der gesammten Vögel