Ferdinand Heine

Jakob Gottlieb Ferdinand Heine (9 March 1809, in Halberstadt – 28 March 1894) was a German ornithologist and collector.

Heine had one of the largest private collection of birds in the mid-19th century. The collection now housed at the Heineanum Halberstadt Museum in Halberstadt (27,000 specimens, 15,000 books). Jean Cabanis wrote about the collection in [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006742027 ''Museum Heineanum. Verzeichniss der ornithologischen Sammlung des Oberamtmann Ferdinand Heine, auf Gut St. Burchard vor Halberstadt''] (4 volumes, 1850–63). His son Ferdinand Heine (1840-1920) was also an ornithologist.

Eponymy

 * Calandrella heinei; Homeyer, 1873.
 * Clytorhynchus vitiensis heinei; Finsch & Hartlaub, 1870.
 * Tangara heinei (Black-capped tanager) Cabanis, 1850.
 * Zoothera heinei (Russet-tailed thrush) Cabanis, 1850.