Johann Heinrich Christian Friedrich Sturm

Johann Heinrich Christian Friedrich Sturm (6 February 1805 – 24 January 1862) was a German ornithologist and engraver.

Sturm was born in Nürnberg, the eldest son of copperplate engraver Jacob Sturm and his wife Christine Albertine Wilhelmine née Wagner.

His younger brother Johann Wilhelm Sturm took an interest in botany and together they helped their father in the production of books on German flora and fauna.

In 1837 he married Anna Margaretha Luise née Zwinger.

He received an honorary doctoral degree in 1848 from the Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania.