Der Naturforscher

"The Naturalist") was a German scientific publication of the Enlightenment devoted to natural history.

Indices and registers are given at ten year intervals enumerating 640 memoirs.

Although many of the new species described here were subsequently considered junior synonyms, others remain valid.

Although most ornithology articles are general or faunal lists,[3] an exception exists in the first description of the wood warbler, Phylloscopus sibilatrix (Bechstein, 1793).

Some exotic taxa were also first described in Der Naturforscher, including the fish species Sternoptyx diaphana Hermann, 1781 and the Indomalayan butterfly Euploea phaenareta (Schaller, 1785).