Eugen Ferdinand von Homeyer

Eugen Ferdinand von Homeyer was born in a family belonging to the Prussian nobility.

He at first dedicated himself to agriculture on the family farm, with poor health forcing him to drop out of school in Rostock.

In 1840 he married Philippine Ladewig and acquired in 1852 the property Warbelow where he built a landscape park.

He sold this after the death of its wife in 1873 and then lived in Stolp, where he dedicated himself to the natural sciences and ornithology.

Eugen von Homeyer wrote over 150 articles on birds and was the first describer of the semi-collared flycatcher and the Cyprus wheatear.