page_title: Hinrich Lichtenstein
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Hinrich Lichtenstein / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: Monument to Martin Lichtenstein in Berlin Zoological Garden
context_page_description: Martin Hinrich Carl Lichtenstein was a German physician, explorer, botanist and zoologist.
context_section_description: Lichtenstein was responsible for the creation of Berlin's Zoological Gardens in 1841, when he persuaded King Frederick William IV of Prussia to donate the grounds of his pheasantry. He also published Johann Reinhold Forster's manuscripts for Descriptiones animalium in 1844.
  In the field of herpetology he described many new species of amphibians and reptiles.
  Among species named by Lichtenstein are included the Australian king parrot (Alisterus scapularis), the crowned sandgrouse (Pterocles coronatus), and the Cape night adder (Causus rhombeatus).
  In 1859 Italian herpetologist, Giorgio Jan, named the forest night adder (Causus lichtensteinii ) in honor of Hinrich Lichtenstein, as did the Dutch zoologist Coenraad Jacob Temminck with Lichtenstein's sandgrouse (Pterocles lichtensteinii ).
caption: Monument to Hinrich Lichtenstein in Berlin Zoological Garden
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