biography
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Finsch, Friedrich Hermann Otto
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| male
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| lived:
| (1839–1917)
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| biography:
| Naturalist and traveller, born in Silesia. He became assistant curator at the Dutch National Museum in Leyden, before becoming curator of the Bremen Museum (1864–78). He travelled all over the world, and published accounts of the birds he saw, particularly in East Africa and Polynesia, but is best remembered as an expert on parrots. From 1905 he was head of the ethnographical department of the Municipal Museum in Brunswick. Finsch's wheatear was named in his honour. |
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