Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug

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Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug (born May 5, 1775 in Berlin ; † February 3, 1856 there ) was a German doctor and entomologist .

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Klug studied at the University of Halle from 1795 and received his doctorate in 1797. In 1798 he settled in Berlin as a general practitioner and in 1806 became an assessor at the Ober-Medizinal-Collegium. In 1816 he became a city ​​physician .

From 1818 Klug was professor of medicine and entomology at the University of Berlin . He was also the second director of the zoological collection and director of the Berlin Botanical Garden .

Also in 1818 he was elected to the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina . In 1829 he was accepted as a full member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . Since 1836 he was a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg . When La Société Cuvierienne was founded in 1838 , he was one of the 140 founding members of the society.

From 1823 he was medical advisor at the Berlin police headquarters and from 1828 director of the scientific deputation for the medical sector. In 1835 he became a secret senior medical adviser and lecturer in the medical department of the Ministry of Spiritual Education and Medical Affairs.

In 1805, Klug was accepted into the Berlin Masonic lodge Zum flammenden Stern ; from 1814 to 1820 he was their master of the chair .

His daughter Ida Amalie Henriette, born in 1804, was later married to the botanist Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal . The botanist, entomologist and paleontologist Dietrich von Schlechtendal was his grandson.

Honors

After him and his daughter, Ida Amalie Henriette von Schlechtendal, b. Klugia Schldl is the genus of plants . named from the Gesneriaceae family .

Works

  • Historia instrumentorum ad polyporum extirpationem, eorumque usus chirurgicus, tractatus inauguralis ... Diss. Halle 1797.
  • The sawfly grouped according to their genera and species. In: Meeting reports of the Society of Friends of Nature Research in Berlin 6 (1814), pp. 45–62, 276–310.
  • Entomological monographs . Reimer, Berlin 1824 ( digitized versionhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3D~IA%3Dentomologischemo00klug~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3D~doppelseiten%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D ).
  • Report on a collection of insects from the Coleoptera order held in Madagascar . In: Treatises of the Prussian Academy of Sciences 1833, pp. 91–223.
  • Overview of the tenthredinetae of the collection (of the Berlin entomological museum). In: Jahrbücher der Insektenkunde 1 (1834), pp. 233-253.
  • Continuation of the diagnoses of the new (and for several months already fully printed) Coleoptera, which the insect broadcasts of Dr. Peters of Mossambique, from the Staphylinii family to the Lamelicornia , including these. In: Reports of the Academy of Sciences, Berlin 20 (1855), pp. 643–660.
  • On the gender difference of Piezaten. First half of the Fabricius genera. In: Mag. Ges. Naturf. Friends Berlin 1 (1807), pp. 68-80.

literature

  • Wilhelm Hess :  Klug, Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 247 f.
  • Société Cuvierienne: List of the Premiers Fondateurs de La Société Cuvierienne, Association universelle pour l'avancement de la Zoologie, de L'Anatomie comparée et de la Palaeontologie . In: Revue Zoologique par La Société Cuvierienne . tape 1 , 1838, p. 189-192 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Société Cuvierienne, p. 190.
  2. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Klug, Johann Christoph Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klug, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1775
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 3, 1856
Place of death Berlin