Christian Ludwig Brehm (24 January 1787 – 23 June 1864) was a German pastor and ornithologist.

He was educated at University of Jena to be ordained as minister at Renthendorf in 1813 where he remained until his death on 23 June 1864.

[3] He offered these to the Berlin Zoological Museum in March 1835 because he feared that a storm would destroy his house, but the sale fell through.

[4] After his death, they remained in the attic of his house, where Otto Kleinschmidt discovered them some years later.

Kleinschmidt persuaded Lord Rothschild to buy them in 1897; they consisted of 9,000 skins, and the collection arrived at his Natural History Museum at Tring in 1932.