Brehm was born in
Schönau near
Gotha on 24 January 1787. He was educated at
University of Jena to be ordained as minister at
Renthendorf in 1813 where he remained until his death on 23 June 1864. He wrote
Beiträge zur Vogelkunde (1820–22), which described 104 species of German
birds in minute detail, and
Handbuch der Naturgeschichte aller Vögel Deutschlands (1831) which described 900 bird species. After his death, they remained in the attic of his house, where
Otto Kleinschmidt discovered them some years later. Kleinschmidt persuaded
Lord Rothschild to buy them in 1897; they consisted of 9,000 skins, and the collection arrived at his
Natural History Museum at Tring in 1932. However, the collection returned to Germany, where it was moved to
Museum Koenig, located in
Bonn. ==Works==