Morten Thrane Brünnich

Morten Thrane Brünnich
Morten Thrane Brünnich
	ملف:Morten Thrane Brunnich.jpg Painting by Jens Juel, 1799
وُلِدَ	30 September 1737; Copenhagen, Denmark
توفي	19 September 1827 (عن عمر 90)
عـُرِف بـ	Zoologiae fundamenta. (1771-1772)
	السيرة العلمية
المجالات	Zoology, Ornithology
الهيئات	Copenhagen University
Author abbrev. (zoology)	Brünnich

Morten Thrane Brünnich (30 September 1737 – 19 September 1827) was a Danish zoologist and mineralogist.

Biography

Brünnich was born in Copenhagen, the son of a portrait painter. He studied oriental languages and theology, but soon became interested in natural history. He contributed his observations of insects to Erik Pontoppidan's Danske Atlas (1763–81). After being put in charge of the natural history collection of Christian Fleischer he became interested in ornithology, and in 1764 he published Ornithologia Borealis, which included the details of many Scandinavian birds, some described for the first time.

The publication of Ornithologia Borealis was aided by his insight in the collection.^[1]

Brünnich corresponded with many foreign naturalists including Linnaeus, Peter Simon Pallas and Thomas Pennant. He published his Entomologia in 1764. He then embarked on a long tour of Europe, spending time studying the fish of the Mediterranean Sea and publishing his Ichthyologia Massiliensis on the subject in 1768.

On his return Brünnich took up the post of Lecturer in Natural History and Economy at Copenhagen University. Here he established a natural history museum and wrote a textbook for his students, the Zoologiae fundamenta.

Namesake creatures

Brünnich's guillemot and the European wasp spider are named after him.

Also in 1927, botanists Hutch. & Dalziel published Afrobrunnichia, which is a genus of plants in the family Polygonaceae with two species in West Africa. It was named in Morten Thrane Brünnich's honour.^[2]

Works

Partial list قالب:Column list

References

^ Jantzen, A. (1891). "Fleischer, Christian". In Bricka, Carl Frederik (ed.). Dansk biografisk lexikon (in Danish). Vol. 5. Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag. pp. 193–194. Retrieved 18 September 2010.{{cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
^ "Afrobrunnichia Hutch. & Dalziel | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online (in الإنجليزية). Retrieved 30 January 2022.

Biographies for Birdwatchers, by Barbara and Richard Mearns - ISBN 0-12-487422-3

[1] Jantzen, A. (1891). "Fleischer, Christian". In Bricka, Carl Frederik (ed.). Dansk biografisk lexikon (in Danish). Vol. 5. Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag. pp. 193–194. Retrieved 18 September 2010.{{cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)

[2] "Afrobrunnichia Hutch. & Dalziel | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online (in الإنجليزية). Retrieved 30 January 2022.

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