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Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug

1775 – 1856

German entomologist

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Lived 1775 – 1856 (aged 80). Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug was a German entomologist, university teacher and physician.

Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug (5 May 1775, in Berlin – 3 February 1856, in Berlin), was a German entomologist. He described the butterflies and some other insects of Upper Egypt and Arabia in Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg and Wilhelm Friedrich Hemprich's Symbolæ Physicæ (1829 in Berlin – 1845). He was professor of medicine and entomology in the University of Berlin (known in the present day as the Humboldt University of Berlin) where he curated the insect collections from 1810 to 1856. At the same time he directed the Botanic Garden in Berlin which contains his collections. Klug worked mainly on Hymenoptera and Coleoptera. The plant genus Klugia (now called Rhynchoglossum, Family Gesneriaceae) was named in his honour as well as the butterflies Geitoneura klugii and Heliophisma klugii.

In 1855, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Works (Partial List) Die Blattwespen nach ihren Gattungen und Arten zusammengestellt. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 6: 45–62, 276–310 (1814). Entomologische Monographieen. Berlin. p. 172–196 (1824). Insecta. in: Ehrenberg, C.G. Symbolae Physicae, seu icones et descriptiones corporum naturalium novarum aut minus cognitorum (1829–1845) Berich über eine auf Madagascar veranstaltete Sammlung von Insecten aus der Ordnung Coleoptera. Abhandlungen der Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften, pp. 91–223 (1833). Uebersicht der Tenthredinetae der Sammlung (des Berliner entomologischen Museums). Jahrbücher der Insektenkunde 1: 233–253 (1834). With Carl Heinrich Hopffer and illustrated by Bernhard Wienker and Neue Schmetterlinge der Insekten-Sammlung des Königl. Zoologischen Musei der Universität zu Berlin Hft. (Volume) 1 – 2 Berlin : Bei dem Herausgeber BHL (1836) Fortsetzung der Diagnosen der neuen (und bereits seit mehreren Monaten vollständig gedruckten) Coleopteren, welche die Insectensendungen des Herrn Dr. Peters von Mossambique enthalten hatten, von der Familie der Staphylinii an bis zu den Lamelicornia, diese mit eingeschlossen.Berichten der Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin 20: 643–660 (1855) Ueber die Geschlechtsverschiedenheit der Piezaten. Erster Haelfte der Fabriciusschen Gattungen. Mag. Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin 1: 68–80. (1807)

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Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Joachimsthalsches Gymnasium
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Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science
Also known as
Klug, Johann Ch. Klug, J. C. F. Klug, Friedrich Klug, F. Klug

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German entomologist (1775–1856)

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Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug was born on 5 May 1775 in Berlin.

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Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug died on 3 February 1856 in Berlin.

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Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug was an entomologist, university teacher and physician.

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Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug was German.

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