August Carl Eduard Baldamus


August Carl Eduard Baldamus was a German ornithologist.
August Baldamus studied theology at the University of Berlin. In 1859 he became Professor at the Gymnasium in Köthen where he met Carl Andreas Naumann and his brother Johann Friedrich Naumann both ornithologists.
In 1849 he became Pastor in Diebzig, in 1859 moving to the same office in Osternienburg. He retired to Coburg in 1870.
Baldamus was the founder of the Deutsche Ornithologen-Gesellschaft and published the ornithological journal Naumannia between 1849 and 1858.

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