August Wilhelm Heinrich Blasius

August Wilhelm Heinrich Blasius (5 July 1845 – 31 May 1912) was a German ornithologist.

Blasius belonged to a family of scientists: his father was the ornithologist Johann Heinrich Blasius and his brother was the ornithologist Rudolf Heinrich Paul Blasius (1842-1907).

In 1870 he became the director of the Museum of Brunswick, and in the following year he became a professor of zoology and botany at the Technische Hochschule Herzogliche.

References

Beolens, Bo & Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird?: Men and women commemorated in the common names of birds, Christopher Helm, London.

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Name	Blasius, Wilhelm
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Date of birth	5 July 1845
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Date of death	31 May 1912
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