About Georg Heinrich Borowski
Lived 1746 – 1801 (aged 55). Georg Heinrich Borowski was a German botanist, university teacher, zoologist, marine biologist, jurist and naturalist.
Georg Heinrich Borowski (26 July 1746 – 26 July 1801) was a German zoologist born in Königsberg (today's Kaliningrad), Kingdom of Prussia, to Andreas Ernst Borowski and wife, Maria Regina Negelken. His elder brother was the Archbishop of Koenigsberg, Ludwig Ernst von Borowski. He died in Frankfurt a. d. Oder, where he had taught at the university there.
Borowski was professor in the department of natural history and domestic economics at the University of Viadrina. In 1781 he described scientifically the Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) under the name Balaena novaeangliae in Gemeinnüzzige Naturgeschichte des Thierreichs.
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German zoologist (1746-1801)
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Georg Heinrich Borowski was born on 26 July 1746 in Königsberg.
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Georg Heinrich Borowski died on 26 July 1801 in Frankfurt (Oder).
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Georg Heinrich Borowski was a botanist, university teacher, zoologist, marine biologist, jurist and naturalist.
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