The following is a timeline of ornithology events:
Johann Friedrich Naumann was a German scientist, engraver, and editor. He is regarded as the founder of scientific ornithology in Europe. He published The Natural History of German Birds (1820–1844) and The Eggs of German Birds (1818–1828). His father Johann Andreas Naumann (1744–1826) was a naturalist, and his brother Carl Andreas Naumann (1786–1854) was also an ornithologist.
Christian Ludwig Brehm was a German pastor and ornithologist. He was the father of the zoologist Alfred Brehm.
Jean Louis Cabanis was a German ornithologist. He worked at the bird collections of the Natural History Museum in Berlin becoming its first curator of birds in 1850. He founded the Journal für Ornithologie in 1853.
Johann Matthäus Bechstein was a German naturalist, forester, ornithologist, entomologist, and herpetologist. In Great Britain, he was known for his treatise on singing birds.
Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen was a German naturalist and forester. He took part in the production of Teutsche Ornithologie oder Naturgeschichte aller Vögel Teutschlands in naturgetreuen Abbildungen und Beschreibungen by Johann Conrad Susemihl.
Johann Andreas Naumann was a German farmer and an amateur naturalist. He was the father of Johann Friedrich Naumann and geologist Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann. He wrote an important book on the birds of Germany entitled Naturgeschichte der Vögel Deutschlands (1804), and his name has been commemorated in the Latin names of the birds lesser kestrel, Falco naumanni, and the Naumann's thrush, Turdus naumanni.
Oswald Duda, full name Pavel Theodor Friedrich Oswald Duda was a German entomologist mainly interested in Diptera.
August Wilhelm Heinrich Blasius was a German ornithologist.
Bruno Geisler was a German ornithologist and bird illustrator.
Alwin Schultz was a German art historian and medievalist, professor of art history at the Charles University in Prague.
Johann Bernard Theodor Altum was a German Catholic priest, zoologist, and forest scientist who also engaged in popularizing his religiously grounded understanding of science.
Paul Georg Heinrich Martin Reinhold Leverkühn was a German physician and ornithologist.
Johann Georg Conrad Oberdieck was a German clergyman and pomologist.
Gerd-Helge Vogel is a German art historian.
The Ernestine Gymnasium is a humanistic and modern gymnasium in Gotha, Germany, the successor of the Illustrious Gymnasium, founded in 1524, which in 1853 was merged with the recently founded Real-Gymnasium Ernestinum, named in honour of Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. The merged school continued to be known as the Ernestinum. Until 1947, when it was closed, it was considered the oldest gymnasium in the German-speaking world. It was re-founded in 1991, shortly after German reunification.
Friedrich Wilhelm Justus Baedeker was a German pharmacist, collector of bird eggs and a bird illustrator.
Events from the year 1797 in Germany.
Isis was an encyclopedic journal that focused on articles on natural science, medicine, technology, economics as well as art and history. It also published important articles on science policy and the organization of science. Edited by Lorenz Oken and published by Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, Isis was the first interdisciplinary journal in the German-speaking world.
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