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FABRICIUS, JOHANN CHRISTIAN (1745-18o8)

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FABRICIUS, JOHANN See also:CHRISTIAN (1745-18o8) , Danish entomologist and economist, was See also:born at See also:Tondern in See also:Schleswig on the 7th of See also:January 1745. After studying at See also:Altona and See also:Copenhagen, he was sent to See also:Upsala, where he attended the lectures of See also:Linnaeus. He devoted his See also:attention professionally to See also:political See also:economy, and, after lecturing on that subject in 1769, was appointed in 1775 See also:professor of natural See also:history, economy and See also:finance at See also:Kiel, in which capacity he wrote various See also:works, chiefly referring to See also:Denmark, and of no See also:special See also:interest. He also published a few other works on See also:general and natural history, See also:botany and travel (including Reise nach Norwegen, 1779), and, although his professional See also:stipend was small, he extended his See also:personal researches into every See also:town in See also:northern and central See also:Europe where a natural history museum was to be found. It is as an entomologist that his memory survives, and for many years his See also:great scientific reputation rested upon the See also:system of See also:classification which he founded upon the structure of the mouth-See also:organs instead of the wings. He had a keen See also:eye for specific See also:differences, and possessed the See also:art of terse and accurate description. He died on the 3rd of See also:March 18o8. A See also:complete See also:list of his entomological publications (31) will be found in See also:Hagen's Bibliotheca Entomologiae; the following are the See also:chief :—Systema Entomologiae (1775) ; Genera Insectorum (1776) ; Philosophic Entomologica (1778); See also:Species Insectorum (1781); Mantissa Insectorum (1787); Entomologia Systematica (1792-1i94), with a supplement (1798); Systema Eleutheratorum (1801), Rhyngotorum (1803), Piezatorum (1804), and Antliatorum (18o5). Full particulars of his See also:life will be found, with a portrait, in the Transactions of the Entomological Society of See also:London (1845), 4, pp. i-xvi, where his auto-See also:biography is translated from the Danish.

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