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Jean Louis Cabanis
Jean Louis Cabanis 1816-1906.jpg
Born8 March 1816
Died20 February 1906 (1906-02-21) (aged 89)
Known forJournal of Ornithology (1853)
Scientific career
FieldsOrnithology
Author abbrev. (zoology)Cabanis

Jean Louis Cabanis (8 March 1816 – 20 February 1906) was a German ornithologist.

Cabanis was born in Berlin to an old Huguenot family who had moved from France. Little is known of his early life. He studied at the University of Berlin from 1835 to 1839, and then travelled to North America, returning in 1841 with a large natural history collection. He was assistant and later director of the Natural History Museum of Berlin (which was at the time the Berlin University Museum), taking over from Martin Lichtenstein. He founded the Journal für Ornithologie in 1853, editing it for the next forty-one years, when he was succeeded by his son-in-law Anton Reichenow.[1][2]

He died in Friedrichshagen.

A number of birds are named after him, including Cabanis's bunting Emberiza cabanisi, Cabanis's spinetail Synallaxis cabanisi, Azure-rumped tanager Poecilostreptus cabanisi and Cabanis's greenbul Phyllastrephus cabanisi.

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North America

North America

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Natural history

Natural history

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Natural History Museum, Berlin

Natural History Museum, Berlin

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Anton Reichenow

Anton Reichenow

Anton Reichenow was a German ornithologist and herpetologist.

Friedrichshagen

Friedrichshagen

Friedrichshagen is a German locality (Ortsteil) within the Berlin borough (Bezirk) of Treptow-Köpenick. Until 2001 it was part of the former borough of Köpenick.

Cabanis's bunting

Cabanis's bunting

Cabanis's bunting is a species of bird in the family Emberizidae.

Cabanis's spinetail

Cabanis's spinetail

Cabanis's spinetail is a species of bird in the family Furnariidae. The common name and Latin binomial commemorates the German ornithologist Jean Louis Cabanis.

Azure-rumped tanager

Azure-rumped tanager

The azure-rumped tanager or Cabanis's tanager is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. It is a local resident in humid broadleaf forests and adjacent plantations of the Pacific slope of western Guatemala and southern Chiapas, Mexico. It has been reported at elevations of 850–1,900 m (2,790–6,230 ft).

Cabanis's greenbul

Cabanis's greenbul

Cabanis's greenbul, also known as Cabanis's bulbul, is a species of songbird in the bulbul family, Pycnonotidae. It is found in east-central and south-central Africa. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical moist montane forest, and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland.

Source: "Jean Cabanis", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2023, January 12th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Cabanis.

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References
  1. ^ Smith, Kimberly G. (2018). "100 Years Ago in the American Ornithologists' Union". The Auk. 135: 152–154. doi:10.1642/AUK-17-214.1.
  2. ^ Schalow, Herman (1906). "Jean Cabanis". Journal für Ornithologie. 54 (3): 329–358. doi:10.1007/BF02089277. S2CID 34014605.
External links
  • Digitised copy of Cabanis' book Museum Heineanum: Verzeichniss der ornithologischen Sammlung des Oberamtmann Ferdinand Heine, auf Gut St. Burchard vor Halberstadt ('Directory of the ornithological collection of the chief magistrate Ferdinand Heine, on St. Burchard near Halberstadt')


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