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Carl Friedrich Bruch

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Name
  
Carl Bruch

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Died
  
December 21, 1857


Carl Friedrich Bruch (March 11, 1789, Zweibrücken – December 21, 1857) was a German ornithologist. He was the younger brother of bryologist Philipp Bruch (1781–1847).

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. He was a catalyst towards the establishment of the Rheinische Naturforschende Gesellschaft (1834).

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.
  • References

    Carl Friedrich Bruch Wikipedia