Johann Matthäus Bechstein
1757–1822
German forestry scientist, ornithologist, and pedagogue. Taught natural history at the Salzmann educational establishment, Schnepfenthal near Gotha, 1785–94. Founded and ran a forestry academy near Waltershausen, 1795–9. Director of the academy for forestry and gamekeeping, Dreißigacker near Meiningen. Authority on caged birds, their diseases and reproduction.
Sources
ADB
DBE
Heß 1885
NDB
Bibliography
ADB: Allgemeine deutsche Biographie. Under the auspices of the Historical Commission of the Royal Academy of Sciences. 56 vols. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot. 1875–1912.
DBE: Deutsche biographische Enzyklopädie. Edited by Walter Killy et al. 12 vols. in 14. Munich: K. G. Saur. 1995–2000.
Heß, Richard Alexander. 1885. Lebensbilder hervorragender Forstmänner und um das Forstwesen verdienter Mathematiker, Naturforscher und Nationalökonomen. Berlin: P. Parey.
NDB: Neue deutsche Biographie. Under the auspices of the Historical Commission of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. 27 vols. (A–Wettiner) to date. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. 1953–.
