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Johan Christian Fabricius
Danish zoologist (1745–1808)
Johann Christian Fabricius (7 January 1745 – 3 March 1808) was a Danish zoologist, specialising in "Insecta", which at that time included all arthropods: insects, arachnids, crustaceans and others. He was a student of Carl Linnaeus, and is considered[1] one of the most important entomologists of the 18th century, having named nearly 10,000 species of animals, and established the basis for the modern insect classification.
Biography
Johann Christian Fabricius was born on 7 January 1745 at Tønder in the Duchy of Schleswig, where his father was a doctor.[2][3] He studied at the gymnasium at Altona and entered the University of Copenhagen in 1762.[4] Later the same year he travelled together with his friend and relative Johan Zoëga to Uppsala, where he studied under Carl Linnaeus for two years.[4] On his return, he started work on his Systema entomologiae, which was finally published in 1775.[4] Throughout this time, he remained dependent on subsidies f
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Johann Christian Fabricius
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Johann Christian Fabricius Professor of Natural History, Economics and Cameralistics at Kiel and world-famous Entomologist
Johann Christian Fabricius (1745 - 1808)
By appointing Johann Christian Fabricius (1745-1808) to a professorship at Kiel, the Christiana Albertina University became host to one of the most important biologists of the generation following Carl von Linné. Fabricius recognized that the environment had a decisive influence on the development of life. In addition to his relatively short publications on economics, the extensive works in which he described hundreds of insect species for the first time are still fundamentally important today. Although Professor Fabricius was greatly liked by his students, he did not always receive the support that he hoped for from the University. However, his worldwide fame still gives a special importance and grandeur to the biological collections of Kiel University.
Fabricius, who is still a recognized en
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Johan Christian Fabricius
BIOLOGIST
1745 - 1808
Johan Christian Fabricius
Johann Christian Fabricius (7 January 1745 – 3 March 1808) was a Danish zoologist, specialising in "Insecta", which at that time included all arthropods: insects, arachnids, crustaceans and others. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johan Christian Fabricius has received more than 205,931 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Johan Christian Fabricius is the 165th most popular biologist (down from 158th in 2019), the 133rd most popular biography from Denmark (down from 132nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Danish Biologist.
Johan Christian Fabricius is most famous for his discovery of the parasitic worm that causes elephantiasis.
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