August Carl Eduard Baldamus

August Carl Eduard Baldamus (April 18, 1812 in Giersleben, Saxony-Anhalt – October 30, 1893 in Coburg) was a German ornithologist.

August Baldamus studied theology at the University of Berlin.

In 1849 he became Pastor in Diebzig, in 1859 moving to the same office in Osternienburg.

Baldamus was the founder of the Deutsche Ornithologen-Gesellschaft (German Ornithologists' Society) and published the ornithological journal Naumannia between 1849 and 1858.

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Portrait (1864)