Federico Carlos Lehmann

Federico Carlos Lehmann Valencia (March 23, 1914 – 1974) was a Colombian ornithologist, plant collector, and conservation biologist.

[2] In 1938 Lehmann Valencia accepted a job in the Institute of Botany at the National University of Colombia in Bogotá.

He also took part in a project at the University of Valle in Cali, collecting and classifying the birds of western Colombia.

In 1963 he founded the departmental Museum of Natural Sciences in Cali which was named after him after his death in 1974.

[2] Lehmann Valencia is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of lizard, Alopoglossus lehmanni,[3] which is endemic to Colombia.