Christian Carl André (20 March 1763 – 19 July 1831) was a leading 19th century German natural scientist, publisher, economist and educator.

[1] Then from 1798 to 1820 he lived in Brno, then within the Habsburg empire, where he headed the Evangelical Lutheran school; published the newspaper Patriotisches Tagebuch (Patriotic Notebook);[1] and edited a weekly journal Oekonomische Neuigkeiten und Verhandlungen (Economical News and Essays).

[1] In his 1795 textbook on zoology, André showed his understanding of how the characteristics of both parents contribute to those of a new individual, as against the older concept of preformation.

He was instrumental in setting up a sheep-breeding section within the Society - the first animal-breeding association in continental Europe - which investigated methods of artificial selection and the transmission of traits of wool from parents to offspring, i.e.

In 1819 he demonstrated a recently designed micrometer for evaluating wool quality, recognised as marking "the beginning of a new epoch of scientific breeding defined with mathematical precision"[3] His son Rudolf (1792–1827) also studied the theory and practice of sheep-breeding.