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Naturalists

142 published records, arranged alphabetically. Each entry is published only where a named source supports it.

Abbott Handerson ThayerArtist · PaintingsAbbott Handerson Thayer (August 12, 1849May 29, 1921) was an American painter, naturalist, and teacher.
Adelbert von ChamissoAuthor · BooksAdelbert von Chamisso (30 January 1781 – 21 August 1838) was a German poet, writer and botanist.
Alberto FortisAuthor · Maps and atlasesAlberto Fortis (9 or 11 November 1741 – 21 October 1803) was a Venetian writer, naturalist and cartographer, citizen of Republic of Venice.
Aldo LeopoldAuthor · BooksAldo Leopold (January 11, 1887 – April 21, 1948) was an American writer, philosopher, naturalist, scientist, ecologist, forester, professor, conservationist, and environmentalist.
Alexander Emanuel AgassizAuthor · BooksAlexander Emmanuel Rodolphe Agassiz (December 17, 1835March 27, 1910), was an American scientist and engineer. He was the son of Louis Agassiz and stepson of Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz.
Alexander WilsonAuthor · BooksAlexander Wilson (July 6, 1766 – August 23, 1813) was a Scottish-American poet, ornithologist, naturalist, and illustrator.
Alfred Russel WallaceAuthor · BooksAlfred Russel Wallace (8 January 1823 – 7 November 1913) was an English naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and illustrator.
Alice ManfieldPhotographer · PhotographyAlice Manfield (1878 – 14 July 1960) commonly known as Guide Alice, was a mountain guide, amateur naturalist, chalet owner, photographer, and early feminist figure from Victoria, Australia.
Ami BouéAuthor · Maps and atlasesAmi Boué (16 March 1794 – 21 November 1881) was a geologist of French Huguenot origin. Ami Boué was born at Hamburg, he was trained in Edinburgh and across Europe.
Antonio CocchiAuthor · BooksAntonio Cocchi (3 August 1695 – 1 January 1758) was an Italian physician, naturalist and writer. He was best known for his work on anatomy.
Antonio GaidonDesigner · DesignAntonio Gaidon (1738–1829), was an architect, urban planner and naturalist.
Atanasio Echeverría y GodoyIllustrator · IllustrationIllustration — Echeveria leucotricha, a plant of the genus named after Echeverría
Barry LopezPhotographer · PhotographyBarry Holstun Lopez (January 6, 1945 – December 25, 2020) was an American essayist, nature writer, and fiction writer whose work is known for its humanitarian and environmental concerns.
Bartolomeu de GusmãoAuthor · BooksBartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão (December 1685 – 18 November 1724) was a Portuguese Catholic priest and naturalist born in colonial Brazil, who was a pioneer of lighter-than-air aerostat…
Benjamin WilsonEngraver · PrintsBenjamin Wilson (21 June (O.S.) 1721 – 6 June 1788) was an English painter, printmaker and philosopher.
Benoît de MailletAuthor · BooksBenoît de Maillet (Saint-Mihiel, 12 April 1656 – Marseille, 30 January 1738) was a well-travelled French diplomat and natural historian.
Bernard Germain de LacépèdePerson · Music memorabiliaBernard-Germain-Étienne de La Ville-sur-Illon, comte de Lacépède or La Cépède (26 December 17566 October 1825) was a French naturalist and an active freemason.
Carl AkeleyPhotographer · PhotographyCarl Ethan Akeley (May 19, 1864 – November 17, 1926) was a pioneering American taxidermist, sculptor, biologist, conservationist, inventor, and nature photographer, noted for his…
Carl BockPhotographer · PhotographyCarl Alfred Bock (17 September 1849 – 10 August 1932) was a Norwegian government official, author, naturalist and explorer.
Carl Gustav JablonskyIllustrator · IllustrationCarl Gustav Jablonsky (1756 – 25 May 1787) was a Berlin naturalist, entomologist and illustrator.
Carl Ludwig KochAuthor · BooksCarl Ludwig Koch (21 September 1778 – 23 August 1857) was a German entomologist and arachnologist.
Charles Alexandre LesueurArtist · PaintingsCharles Alexandre Lesueur (1 January 1778 in Le Havre – 12 December 1846 in Le Havre) was a French naturalist, artist, and explorer.
Charles Hamilton SmithIllustrator · IllustrationLieutenant-Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith, KH, KW, FRS, FLS (26 December 1776 – 21 September 1859) was a British Army officer, artist, naturalist, antiquary and spy.
Charles KeelerAuthor · BooksIllustration — Keeler circa 1895
Christian Cay Lorenz HirschfeldAuthor · BooksIllustration — Christian Cay Lorenz Hirschfeld, copperplate engraving by J. D. Heidenreich (1792)
Claude AubrietArtist · PaintingsClaude Aubriet (c. 1651 or 1665 – 3 December 1742) was a French illustrator and botanical artist.
Daniel SolanderAuthor · BooksDaniel Carlsson Solander or Daniel Charles Solander (19 February 1733 – 13 May 1782) was a Swedish naturalist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus.
Don CupittAuthor · BooksDon Cupitt (22 May 1934 – 18 January 2025) was an English philosopher of religion and academic of Christian theology.
Donella MeadowsAuthor · BooksDonella Hager "Dana" Meadows (March 13, 1941 – February 20, 2001) was an American environmental scientist, educator, and writer.
Doris Mable CochranIllustrator · IllustrationDoris Mable Cochran (May 18, 1898 – May 22, 1968) was an American herpetologist and custodian of the American Natural Collection at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C, for many…
Dorothea Maria GraffArtist · PaintingsDorothea Maria Graff (1678–1743) was an 18th-century painter born in the Duchy of Bavaria, who lived and worked in Amsterdam and Saint Petersburg.
Edward Adrian WilsonArtist · PaintingsEdward Wilson (disambiguation)
Edward DonovanIllustrator · IllustrationEdward Donovan (1768 – 1 February 1837) was an Anglo-Irish writer, natural history illustrator, and amateur zoologist.
Edwin CerioDesigner · DesignEdwin Cerio (28 June 1875 – 24 January 1960) was a prominent Italian writer, engineer, architect, historian, and botanist.
Elizabeth Cabot AgassizAuthor · BooksElizabeth Cabot Agassiz (pseudonym, Actaea; Cary; December 5, 1822 – June 27, 1907) was an American educator, naturalist, writer, and the co-founder and first president of Radcliffe…
Elizabeth GouldIllustrator · IllustrationElizabeth Gould (Coxen; 18 July 1804 – 15 August 1841) was a British artist and illustrator at the forefront of the natural history movement.
Erasmus DarwinAuthor · BooksErasmus Robert Darwin (12 December 173118 April 1802) was an English physician. One of the key thinkers of the Midlands Enlightenment, he was also a natural philosopher, physiologist,…
Eugène MaraisAuthor · BooksEugène Nielen Marais (9 January 1871 – 29 March 1936) was a South African lawyer, naturalist, writer and poète maudit in the Second Language Movement of Afrikaans literature.
Eugène TrutatPhotographer · PhotographyEugène Trutat (25 August 1840 – 6 August 1910) was a French naturalist, mountaineer, pyreneist, geologist and photographer, who was curator of the Museum of Toulouse.
Félix Rodríguez de la FuentePerson · Film memorabiliaFélix Samuel Rodríguez de la Fuente (14 March 1928 – 14 March 1980) was a Spanish naturalist and broadcaster.
Francisco XiménezAuthor · BooksFrancísco Ximénez (November 28, 1666 – c. 1729) was a Dominican priest who is known for his conservation of an indigenous Maya narrative known today as the Popol Vuh.
François LeguatAuthor · BooksFrançois Leguat (1637/1639 – September 1735) was a French explorer and naturalist.
François QuesnayAuthor · BooksFrançois Quesnay (lang; 4 June 1694 – 16 December 1774) was a French economist and physician of the Physiocratic school.
François-Nicolas MartinetEngraver · PrintsFrançois-Nicolas Martinet (1731 - c. 1800) was a French engineer, engraver and naturalist.
Gabrielle Maud VassalPhotographer · PhotographyGabrielle Maud Vassal (née Candler 5 March 1880 – 31 May 1959) was a British-born naturalist.
Georg MarcgraveAuthor · Maps and atlasesGeorg Marcgrave (20 September 1610 – August 1644) was a German naturalist, astronomer, and cartographer.
Georg NaumannAuthor · Maps and atlasesKurt Georg Naumann (1901–1978) was a German scientist, trapper and pioneer of the early local exploration and use of oil wells and natural gas deposits in the northern catchment area of…
George Bird GrinnellAuthor · BooksGeorge Bird Grinnell (September 20, 1849 – April 11, 1938) was an American anthropologist, historian, naturalist, and writer.
George Brettingham Sowerby IIAuthor · BooksGeorge Brettingham Sowerby II (25 March 1812 – 26 July 1884) was a British naturalist, illustrator, and conchologist.
George CrabbeAuthor · BooksGeorge Crabbe (24 December 1754 – 3 February 1832) was an English poet and clergyman.
Gerard van SpaendonckArtist · PaintingsGerard van Spaendonck (22 March 1746 – 11 May 1822) was a Dutch painter.
Gian Francesco BuonamicoAuthor · BooksĠan Franġisk Bonamico (or Giovanni Francesco Bonamico) (1639–1680) was a Maltese doctor and a member of the Order of St.
Giovanni Maria LancisiAuthor · BooksGiovanni Maria Lancisi (Johannes Maria Lancisius; 26 October 1654 – 20 January 1720) was an Italian physician, epidemiologist and anatomist who made a correlation between the presence of…
Giovanni MeliAuthor · BooksGiovanni Meli (4 March 1740 – 20 December 1815) was an Italian poet.
Graceanna LewisArtist · PaintingsGraceanna Lewis (August 3, 1821 – February 25, 1912) was an American naturalist, illustrator, and social reformer.
Grigory LangsdorffAuthor · BooksGeorg Heinrich Freiherr von Langsdorff (8 April 1774 – 9 June 1852) was a German naturalist and explorer, as well as a Russian diplomat, better known by his Russian name, Grigori Ivanovich…
Hans MeyerAuthor · Maps and atlasesHans Heinrich Josef Meyer (22 March 1858 – 5 July 1929) was a German geographer from Hildburghausen, who was the son of publisher Herrmann Julius Meyer (1826–1909).
Harry JohnstonPhotographer · PhotographySir Harry Hamilton Johnston GCMG (12 June 1858 – 31 July 1927) was a British explorer, botanist, artist, colonial administrator, and linguist who travelled widely across Africa to speak…
Hedley Herbert FinlaysonPhotographer · PhotographyHedley Herbert Finlayson (1895–1991) was an Australian mammalogist, author and photographer.
Helen MacdonaldIllustrator · IllustrationHelen Macdonald (born 1970) is an English writer and naturalist. They are best known as the author of H is for Hawk, which won the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize and Costa Book Award;
Henrik SteffensAuthor · BooksHenrik Steffens (2 May 1773 – 13 February 1845), was a Norwegian philosopher, scientist, and poet.
Hermann von RosenbergAuthor · Maps and atlasesHermann Karl Benjamin von Rosenberg (April 7, 1817 – November 15, 1888) was a German naturalist born in Darmstadt.
Hildegard of BingenPerson · Music memorabilia109817 September 1179), also known as the "Sibyl of the Rhine", was a German Benedictine abbess and polymath, active during the High Middle Ages
Ignaz Paul Vital TroxlerAuthor · BooksIllustration — Ignaz Paul Vital Troxler (1830)
Immanuel KantAuthor · BooksImmanuel Kant (born Emanuel Kant; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher.
Isabella BirdPhotographer · PhotographyIsabella Bird is recorded as having received Colorado Women's Hall of Fame and Fellow of t
Ivan T. SandersonAuthor · BooksIvan Terence Sanderson (January 30, 1911 – February 19, 1973) was a British biologist and writer born in Edinburgh, Scotland, who became a naturalized citizen of the United States.
Jacob HübnerIllustrator · IllustrationJacob Hübner (20 June 1761 – 13 September 1826, in Augsburg) was a German entomologist. He was the author of Sammlung Europäischer Schmetterlinge (1796–1805), a founding work of entomology.
Jacques BarrabandArtist · PaintingsIllustration — Le Tocan (toucan) by Jacques Barraband
Jean-Baptiste AudebertEngraver · PrintsJean Baptiste Audebert (1759 – December 1800) was a French artist and naturalist.
Jean-Baptiste de LamarckAuthor · BooksJean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de Lamarck (1 August 1744 – 18 December 1829), often known simply as Lamarck, was a French naturalist, biologist, academic, and soldier.
Jim CorbettAuthor · BooksJames Corbett (disambiguation)James Corbett
Johann Baptist von SpixIllustrator · IllustrationJohann Baptist Ritter von Spix (9 February 1781 – 13 March 1826) was a German biologist.
Johann Christian RosenmüllerAuthor · BooksJohann Christian Rosenmüller (25 May 1771 – 28 February 1820) was a German anatomist born near Hildburghausen, Thuringia. He was the son of theologian Johann Georg Rosenmüller (1736–1815).
Johann ZahnAuthor · Maps and atlasesJohann Zahn (29 March 1641, Karlstadt am Main – 27 June 1707) was the seventeenth-century German author of Oculus Artificialis Teledioptricus Sive Telescopium (Würzburg, 1685).
John AbbotIllustrator · IllustrationJohn Abbot (1751c. 1840) was an American naturalist and artist.
John AikinAuthor · BooksJohn Aikin (15 January 1747 – 7 December 1822) was an English medical doctor and surgeon. Later in life he devoted himself wholly to biography and writing in periodicals.
John AndersonPhotographer · PhotographyJohn Anderson (4 October 1833 – 15 August 1900) was a Scottish anatomist and zoologist who worked in India as the curator of the Indian Museum, Calcutta.
John BurroughsAuthor · BooksJohn Burroughs (April 3, 1837 – March 29, 1921) was an American naturalist and nature essayist, active in the conservation movement in the United States.
John ClareAuthor · BooksJohn Clare (13 July 1793 – 20 May 1864) was an English poet. The son of a farm labourer, he became known for his celebrations of the English countryside and his sorrows at its disruption.
John LathamIllustrator · IllustrationJohn Latham (27 June 1740 – 4 February 1837) was an English medical doctor, naturalist and author.
José Bonifácio de Andrada e SilvaAuthor · BooksJosé Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva (ʒoˈzɛ boniˈfasju dʒi ɐ̃ˈdɾadɐ i ˈsiwvɐ; 13 June 17636 April 1838) was a Brazilian statesman, naturalist, mineralist, professor and poet, born in Santos,…
Joy AdamsonArtist · Comics and comic artFriederike Victoria "Joy" Adamson (Gessner; 20 January 1910 – 3 January 1980) was a Czech-born Austrian-Kenyan naturalist, artist and author.
Juan Eusebio NierembergAuthor · Books
Julius Theodor Christian RatzeburgAuthor · BooksJulius Theodor Christian Ratzeburg (16 February 1801– 24 October 1871) was a German zoologist, botanist, entomologist, and forester.
Karl Friedrich SchimperAuthor · BooksKarl Friedrich Schimper (15 February 1803 – 21 December 1867) was a German botanist, naturalist and poet.
Karl KořistkaAuthor · Maps and atlasesKarl Kořistka (also Carl Kořistka, Karel Kořistka; 7 February 1825 – 18 January 1906) was a Czech geographer, cartographer, mathematician and professor.
Konrad LorenzAuthor · BooksKonrad Zacharias Lorenz (7 November 1903 27 February 1989) was an Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist.
Leon BarszczewskiAuthor · Maps and atlasesLeon Barszczewski (February 20, 1849 in Warsaw – March 19, 1910 in Częstochowa) was a soldier, topographer, explorer of the Central Asia culture, naturalist, and glaciologer.
Lesley ChandlerIllustrator · IllustrationLeslie Gordon Chandler (1888–1980) was an Australian jeweller, vigneron, bird photographer, writer and speaker on natural history, and ornithologist.
Lester Russell BrownAuthor · BooksLester Russel Brown (born March 28, 1934) is an American environmental analyst, founder of the Worldwatch Institute, and founder and former president of the Earth Policy Institute, a…
Loren EiseleyAuthor · BooksLoren Eiseley (September 3, 1907 – July 9, 1977) was an American anthropologist, educator, philosopher, and natural science writer, who taught and published books from the 1950s through the…
Louis Alphonse de BrébissonPhotographer · PhotographyLouis Alphonse de Brébisson (25 September 1798 – 26 April 1888) was a French botanist and photographer born in Falaise, Calvados.
Maria Sibylla MerianArtist · PaintingsMaria Sibylla Merian (2 April 164713 January 1717) was a German-Dutch entomologist, naturalist, and scientific illustrator.
Mary Hunter AustinAuthor · BooksMary Hunter Austin (September 9, 1868 – August 13, 1934) was an American writer. One of the early nature writers of the American Southwest, her classic The Land of Little Rain (1903)…
Mary Jobe AkeleyPhotographer · PhotographyMary Jobe Akeley (January 29, 1878 – January 19, 1966) was an American explorer, author, mountaineer, and photographer.
Matthias Jacob SchleidenAuthor · BooksMatthias Jakob Schleiden (lang; 5 April 1804 – 23 June 1881) was a German botanist and co-founder of cell theory, along with Theodor Schwann and Rudolf Virchow.
Michał BoymAuthor · Maps and atlasesMichał Piotr Boym, SJ (c. 1612 – 22 June 1659) was a Polish Jesuit missionary, scientist, and explorer active in China during the 17th century.
Oliver LodgeAuthor · BooksSir Oliver Joseph Lodge (12 June 1851 – 22 August 1940) was an English physicist and electrical engineer whose investigations into electromagnetic radiation (EMR) contributed to the…
ParacelsusAuthor · BooksTheophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim (10 November 1493 – 24 September 1541), known as Paracelsus, was a Swiss physician, alchemist, lay theologian, and philosopher of the German Renaissance.
Pedro AméricoArtist · PaintingsPedro Américo de Figueiredo e Melo (29 April 1843 – 7 October 1905) was a Brazilian novelist, poet, scientist, art theorist, essayist, philosopher, politician and professor, best remembered…
Petrus GylliusAuthor · BooksIllustration — Title page of Petrus Gyllius' 1535 translation of Aelian.
Pietro de' CrescenziAuthor · BooksPietro de' Crescenzi (Petrus de Crescentiis; c. 1230/35 – c.
Pliny the ElderAuthor · BooksGaius Plinius Secundus (Como, 23 or 24 – Stabiae, 25 August 79), known in English as Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, scientist, naval and army commander of the early Roman…
Prince Henri d'OrléansPhotographer · PhotographyPrince Henri of Orléans (16 October 1867 – 9 August 1901) was the son of Prince Robert, Duke of Chartres, and Princess Françoise of Orléans.
Princess Theresa of BavariaAuthor · BooksPrincess Therese of Bavaria (Therese Charlotte Marianne Auguste Prinzessin von Bayern;
Robert Christopher TytlerPhotographer · PhotographyIllustration — Harriet and Robert Tytler
Robert Lloyd PraegerAuthor · BooksIllustration — Robert Lloyd Praeger by Sarah Cecilia Harrison, now in National Museums Northern Ireland
Rosemary MoscoArtist · Comics and comic artRosemary Mosco is a cartoonist and writer working in science communication. She is best known for the science-and-nature comic Bird and Moon, and her graphic novels about nature.
Rubens PealeArtist · PaintingsRubens Peale (May 4, 1784 – July 17, 1865) was an American museum administrator and artist. Rubens Peale was born in Philadelphia, he was the son of artist-naturalist Charles Willson Peale.
Rudolf BaumbachAuthor · BooksRudolf Baumbach (28 September 1840 – 21 September 1905) was a German poet.
Samuel BakerAuthor · BooksSir Samuel White Baker (8 June 1821 – 30 December 1893) was an English explorer, officer, naturalist, big game hunter, engineer, writer and abolitionist.
Sara Louisa OberholtzerAuthor · BooksSara Louisa Oberholtzer (Vickers; May 20, 1841 – February 2, 1930) was an American poet, activist, and economist.
Spencer Fullerton BairdAuthor · BooksSpencer Fullerton Baird (February 3, 1823 – August 19, 1887) was an American naturalist, ornithologist, ichthyologist, herpetologist, and museum curator.
Sven HedinIllustrator · IllustrationSven Anders Hedin, KNO1kl RVO, (19 February 1865 – 26 November 1952) was a Swedish geographer, topographer, explorer, photographer, travel writer and illustrator of his own works.
Thaddäus HaenkeAuthor · Maps and atlasesThaddäus Xaverius Peregrinus Haenke (also Thaddeus Haenke; Tadeáš Haenke; Tadeo Haenke; 5 October 1761 – 4 November 1816) was a Czech botanist and explorer.
Thomas of CantimpréAuthor · BooksIllustration — 15th-century illuminated manuscript of Thomas of Cantimpré's De rerum natura. Sheet showing 'monstruous human beings' such as cannibals.
Titian PealePhotographer · PhotographyTitian Ramsay Peale (November 17, 1799 – March 13, 1885) was an American artist, naturalist, and explorer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Tomasz ZanAuthor · BooksIllustration — Tomasz Zan, in a drawing by R. Żukowski (1825–1855)
Ulisse AldrovandiArtist · PaintingsUlisse Aldrovandi (11 September 1522 – 4 May 1605) was an Italian naturalist, the moving force behind Bologna's botanical garden, one of the first in Europe.

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