Johann Andreas Naumann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German naturalist
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Place of Birth: Prosigk, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
About Johann Andreas Naumann
- Johann Andreas Naumann (13 April 1744 – 15 May 1826) 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.
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