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Jean Louis Cabanis was a
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ornithologist.
Cabanis was born in
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. He studied at the University of Berlin from 1835 to 1839, and then travelled to
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, returning in 1841 with a large
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collection. He was assistant and later director of the Berlin University Museum, taking over from
Martin LichtensteinMartin Hinrich Carl Lichtenstein was a German physician, explorer, zoologist, and herpetologist.-Biography:...
. He founded the
Journal für Ornithologie in 1853, editing it for the next forty-one years, when he was succeeded by his son-in-law
Anton ReichenowAnton Reichenow was a German ornithologist.Reichenow was the son-in-law of Jean Cabanis, and worked at the Humboldt Museum from 1874 to 1921. He was an expert on African birds, making a collecting expedition to West Africa in 1872 and 1873, and writing Die Vögel Afrikas...
.
A number of birds are named after him, including Cabanis' Bunting
Emberiza cabanisi, Cabanis' Spinetail
Synallaxis cabanisi,
Azure-rumped TanagerThe Azure-rumped Tanager, Tangara cabanisi is a Middle American bird of the family Thraupidae. It is a local resident in humid broadleaf forests and adjacent plantations of the Pacific slope of western Guatemala and southern Chiapas, Mexico...
Tangara cabanisi, and Cabanis' Greenbul
Phyllastrephus cabanisi.