Friedrich Lindner (ornithologist)

Johann Friedrich Lindner (13 April 1864 – 26 May 1922) was a German pastor and ornithologist.

Johann Friedrich Lindner was born in Krössuln in Weissenfels, the son of Thuringian school teacher Carl Friedrich and Charlotte née Schröer.

His younger brother Carl and his year older schoolmate Johannes Thienemann became interested in birds at school in Zeitz (1874-1883).

Animal artist Heinrich Krüger (1863-1901) who had a special interest in elks took him for the first time in April 1888 to the Curonian Spit where Lindner was amazed by the migratory birdlife.

In 1922 he wrote an obituary for Alwin Voigt and died just 13 days after.

Map of the Curonian Spit made by Lindner