Carl Friedrich Bruch (March 11, 1789 – December 21, 1857) was a German ornithologist. He was the younger brother of bryologist Philipp Bruch (1781–1847). Bruch was born in Zweibrücken. Up until 1855, he worked as a notary in Mainz. He was the author of numerous articles in the journals Isis and Journal für Ornithologie. He was a catalyst towards the establishment of the Rheinische Naturforschende Gesellschaft (1834). In 1828, he proposed a system of trinomial nomenclature for species, in contrast to the binomial system of Carl Linnaeus. The following are a list of ornithological species described by Bruch: Dalmatian pelican, (Pelecanus crispus), 1832 Hartlaub's gull, (Chroicocephalus hartlaubii), 1853 Red-legged kittiwake, (Rissa brevirostris), 1853 Sooty gull (Ichthyaetus hemprichii), 1853. References German ornithologists People from Zweibrücken 1789 births 1857 deaths