Cornelius Nozeman & Christiaan Sepp

Cornelius Nozeman and Christiaan Sepp were central figures behind Nederlandsche Vogelen, one of the most important ornithological publications produced in the Netherlands during the 18th and early 19th centuries. Nozeman was a Dutch clergyman and naturalist with a strong interest in field observation. He studied birds in their natural environment and wrote the accompanying descriptions for Nederlandsche Vogelen, combining practical observation, behaviour and natural history at a time when systematic studies of native Dutch birds were still relatively rare. Christiaan Sepp was an accomplished