About Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben
Lived 1744 – 1777 (aged 33). Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben was a German naturalist, veterinarian, physician, university teacher, entomologist and physicist.
Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben (; 22 June 1744 – 19 August 1777) was a German naturalist from Quedlinburg.
Erxleben was professor of physics and veterinary medicine at the University of Göttingen. He wrote Anfangsgründe der Naturlehre (1772) and Systema regni animalis (1777). He was founder of the first and oldest academic veterinary school in Germany, the Institute of Veterinary Medicine, in 1771.
He was the son of Dorothea Christiane Erxleben, the first woman in Germany to earn a medical degree.
Works 1767 Einige Anmerkungen über das Insektensystem des Hr. Geoffroy und die Schäfferschen Verbesserungen desselben. Hannoverisches Magazin, Hannover (Stück 20). 305–316. 1772 Anfangsgründe der Naturlehre. Göttingen und Gotha, Dieterich 648 p., 8 Taf. 1775 Anfangsgründe der Chemie. Göttingen, Dieterich, 472p. Digital edition by the University and State Library Düsseldorf 1769–1778 Pallas, P. S., Baldinger, E. G., Erxleben, J. C. P. [full title] Peter Simon Pallas Naturgeschichte merkwuerdiger Thiere, in welcher vornehmlich neue und unbekannte Thierarten durch Kupferstiche, Beschreibungen und Erklaerungen erlaeutert werden. Durch den Verfasser verteutscht. I. Band 1 bis 10te Sammlung mit Kupfern. Berlin und Stralsund, G. A. Lange (Samml. 1–10), 48 Taf.
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German scientist
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Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben was born on 22 June 1744 in Quedlinburg.
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Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben died on 19 August 1777 in Göttingen.
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Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben was a naturalist, veterinarian, physician, university teacher, entomologist and physicist.
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Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben was German.
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