Coenraad Jacob Temminck , born the March 31st 1778 and dead the January 30th 1858, is a Aristocrate and a Zoologiste Dutch.

His/her father, Temminck Jacob, are treasurer of Dutch Compagnie of the Eastern Indies which intends his/her son to become an employee of the Company. Coenraad becomes, at seventeen years, appraiser. But sensitized with the natural history by his father by which the personal collection is enriched by François Levaillant (1753-1826), it is directed towards the study of the birds. It enters then to the service of the German ornithologist Meyer to Offenbach which initiates it with the Taxidermie.

Temminck is the first director of the national natural history museum of Natural history of Leyde, station which it occupies of 1820 until his death. Its Manual of ornithology, or systematic Table of the birds which are in Europe (1815) becomes the reference book on the Oiseau X European during many years. He inherits vast a Collection of birds of his father.

He is also the author of a general Natural history of the pigeons and gallinacés (1813-1817), Observations on the methodical classification of the birds (1817), of a Nouveau collection of colored boards of birds to be used as continuation… with the enluminées boards of Buffon… (1820-1838), of a Monographs of mammalogy (1827), of a Fauna japonica, sive Descriptio animalium, quae, in itinere per Japoniam… (1838-1850), of Verhandelingen over of natuurlijke geschiedenis DER nederlandsche… (1839-1844), this last is translated under the title of Blow-with general eye on the possessions Dutchwomen in archipelagic India (1838-1849).

Temminck writes in 1820: More one will want reciprocally to mean oneself compared to the nomenclature of the kinds and of the species, more sciences will gain there, and less one will have to deal with the most tedious work and most sterile that I know. ”

Many animals, birds and mammals, were dedicated to him like the Bécasseau of Temminck ( Calidris temminckii ), the Courvite de Temminck ( Cursorius temminckii ), the Pic of Temminck ( Dendrocopos temminckii ), the Pangolin of Temminck ( Manis temminckii ), the Akalat de Temminck ( Pellorneum pyrrogenys ), the Tragopan de Temminck ( Tragopan temminckii ), the Sporophile de Temminck ( Sporophila falcirostris ) or the Rollier of Temminck ( Coracias temminckii ).

List partial of the publications

• Tired Posesiones holandesas in el Archipiélago of India. Manila cigar 1855.
• zoological Drafts on the coast of Guiné… it left, the mammals. Brill, Leyde 1853.
• Blow-with general eye on the possessions Dutchwomen in archipelagic India. Arnz, Leyde 1846-49.
• New collection of colored boards of birds. Levrault, Paris 1838.
• Monographs of mammalogy. Dufour & of Ocagne, Paris, Leyde 1827-41.
• Atlas of the birds of Europe, to be used as complement with the Handbook of ornithology of Mr. Temminck. Belin, Paris 1826-42.
• New collection of colored boards of birds, to be used of continuation and complement with the enluminées boards of Buffon. Dufour  &  of Ocagne, Paris 1821.
• Observations on the methodical classification of the birds and remarks on the analysis of a new elementary ornithology. Dufour, Amsterdam, Manual Paris 1817.
• of ornithologie    ou    Systematic table of the birds which are in Europe. Sepps & Dufour, Amsterdam, Paris 1815-40.
• general Natural history of the pigeons and of gallinacés. Sepps, Amsterdam 1808-15.

Source

External bond

• Biography in Dutch