Based on the collections made by Philipp Franz von Siebold (who edited the text) and his successor Heinrich Bürger in Japan, Fauna Japonica’s vertebrate volumes were authored by the Leyden Museum naturalists Coenraad Jacob Temminck and Hermann Schlegel.
:::* The Japanese names for these two islands were reversed due to the cartographic error of a German Dutch physician Philipp Franz von Siebold.
Franz Liszt | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Franz Schubert | Franz Kafka | Otto von Bismarck | Alexander von Humboldt | Wernher von Braun | Carl Maria von Weber | Franz Joseph I of Austria | Herbert von Karajan | Franz Ferdinand | Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher | Franz Boas | John von Neumann | Franz Ferdinand (band) | Lars von Trier | Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria | Ferdinand von Mueller | Paul von Hindenburg | Alexander von Humboldt Foundation | Heinrich von Kleist | Franz Lehár | Anne Sofie von Otter | Erich von Stroheim | Max von Sydow | Justus von Liebig | Georg Philipp Telemann | Franz Josef Land | Hermann von Helmholtz | Franz Werfel |
Sometimes physicians such as Engelbert Kaempfer, Carl Peter Thunberg, and Philipp Franz von Siebold were called to high-ranking Japanese patients with the permission of the authorities.
Heinrich was the second son of the famous German physician and pioneer of Japanese studies Philipp Franz von Siebold, who died in 1866.