Thomas Conrad von Baldenstein (28 January 1784 – 14 September 1878) was a Swiss ornithologist, entomologist and apiarist. He produced a number of scientific works on the birdlife of the Alps, and was the first to describe the willow tit.
Biography
Conrad was born at Baldenstein Castle in Sils im Domleschg, in the Graubünden, the son of Francesco Conrad von Baldenstein and Katharina von Salis-Haldenstein. He attended school in Baldenstein and Reichenau and began law studies at the University of Erlangen, which he did not complete.