Eugene Eisenmann

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title: "Eugene Eisenmann" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["20th-century-american-zoologists", "1906-births", "1981-deaths", "american-ornithologists", "harvard-law-school-alumni", "jewish-american-scientists", "panamanian-emigrants-to-the-united-states", "panamanian-jews", "ornithologists", "panamanian-scientists", "panamanian-people-of-german-jewish-descent", "people-associated-with-the-american-museum-of-natural-history", "proskauer-rose-partners", "20th-century-american-jews"] description: "Panamanian-American lawyer and amateur ornithologist" topic_path: "law" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Eisenmann" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Panamanian-American lawyer and amateur ornithologist ::

Eugene "Gene" Eisenmann (19 February 1906 – 16 October 1981) was an American and Panamanian lawyer and amateur ornithologist of German-Jewish ancestry. He had a long association with the Linnaean Society of New York (LSNY) as well as with the American Ornithologists' Union (AOU) and the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). He was an expert on Neotropical birds.

Biography

Eisenmann was born in Panama and, though he was based throughout his adult life in New York City, he returned to Panama almost annually in order to study the birdlife and visit his family. He was bilingual in English and Spanish.

Ornithology

Eisenmann served as President of the LSNY from 1947 to 1949, and was later elected a Fellow. He published over 150 papers on ornithology, and his The Species of Middle American Birds is Volume 7 of the Transactions of the LSNY. He also co-wrote The Species of Birds of South America with Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee.

Legacy

Following Eisenmann's death from a heart attack in 1981,

In 2000 the Fundación Avifauna Eugene Eisenmann (Eugene Eisenmann Bird Foundation) was established in Panama by a group of Panamanian and American bird lovers with the mission of protecting Panama's birds and their habitats. In 2003 it obtained a 20 ha concession at Pipeline Road in central Panama for the construction of the Panama Rainforest Discovery Center in the Soberanía National Park.

References

References

1. Vuilleumier, François. (1995). "Five great Neotropical ornithologists: an appreciation of Eugene Eisenmann, Maria Koepcke, Claës Olrog, Rodulfo Philippi, and Helmut Sick". Ornitologia Neotropical.
2. (17 October 1981). "Eugene Eisenmann, 75, A Noted Ornithologist". [[The New York Times]].
3. (1983). "In memoriam: Eugene Eisenmann". The Auk.
4. "About Us". The Linnaean Society of New York.
5. "Protecting Panama's Avifauna". Fundación Avifauna Eugene Eisenmann.

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