| Intro | German ornithologist (1789–1857) |
| A.K.A. | Bruch |
| Was |
Zoologist Scientist |
| From |
Holy Roman Empire Germany |
| Type |
Biology |
| Gender | male |
| Birth | 11 March 1789, Zweibrücken, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany |
| Death |
21 December 1857, Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany (aged 68 years) |
Carl Friedrich Bruch (March 11, 1789, Zweibrücken – December 21, 1857) was a German ornithologist. He was the younger brother of bryologist Philipp Bruch (1781–1847).
Up until 1855, he worked as a notary in Mainz. He was the author of numerous articles in the journals Isis and Journal für Ornithologie. He was a catalyst towards the establishment of the Rheinische Naturforschende Gesellschaft (1834).
In 1828, he proposed a system of trinomial nomenclature for species, in contrast to the binomial system of Carl Linnaeus. The following are a list of ornithological species described by Bruch:
- Dalmatian pelican, (Pelecanus crispus), 1832
- Hartlaub’s gull, (Chroicocephalus hartlaubii), 1853
- Red-legged kittiwake, (Rissa brevirostris), 1853
- Sooty gull (Ichthyaetus hemprichii), 1853.