Friedrich Hermann Otto Finsch_
Cieplice Śląskie-Zdrój
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Cieplice Śląskie-Zdrój
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Updated Feb 20, 2026
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Birthplace
Cieplice Śląskie-Zdrój
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Languages
German
Spouse
Elisabeth Finsch (1886)
Parents
Moritz Finsch
Zodiac Sign
♌ Leo
Chinese Zodiac
猪 Pig
Name Origin
English < Proto-Germanic (*audaz)
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Friedrich Hermann Otto Finsch: German explorer and biologist (1839-1917).
Born in Cieplice Śląskie-Zdrój (died at age 77).
Recipient of the Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi.
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Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi
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Biography
Friedrich Hermann Otto Finsch was a German ethnographer, naturalist and colonial explorer. He is known for a two-volume monograph on the parrots of the world which earned him a doctorate. He also wrote on the people of New Guinea and was involved in plans for German colonization in Southeast Asia. Several species of bird are named after him as also the town of Finschhafen in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea and a crater on the Moon.
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