Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben

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For the Erxleben meteorite of 1812, see meteorite falls.
Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben
Born
Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben

22 June 1744 (1744-06-22)
Quedlinburg, Kingdom of Prussia
Died19 August 1777 (1777-08-20) (aged 33)
Göttingen, Electorate of Hanover, Holy Roman Empire
Alma materUniversity of Göttingen
Parent
Scientific career
FieldsNaturalist
InstitutionsUniversity of Göttingen
Doctoral advisorAbraham Gotthelf Kästner
Doctoral studentsChristian von Weigel

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. 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.

References

  • Gerta Beaucamp: Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben. Versuch einer Biographie und Bibliographie. (= Lichtenberg-Studien, hg. von Stefan Brüdermann und Ulrich Joost, Bd. 9). Wallstein Verlag Göttingen 1994
  • Georg Christoph Lichtenberg: Vorlesungen zur Naturlehre. Ediert nach G. Chr. Lichtenbergs annotierten Handexemplar der 4. Auflage von Johann Christian Polykarp Erxlebens "Anfangsgründe der Naturlehre", hrsg. v. d. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen. Wallstein Verlag Göttingen 2005
  • Bertram Brenig: "Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben (1744–1777) – Universalgelehrter, Naturforscher und Tierarzt". Georgia-Augusta 72, 35–44 (2000)

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