biography
| name: |
Fabricius, Johann Christian
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pronunciation:
[fabreetsius]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1745–1808)
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| biography:
| Entomologist, born in Tønder, SW Denmark. He studied at Copenhagen, and Uppsala, Sweden, and became professor of natural history at Kiel (1775). One of the founders of entomological taxonomy, his classification of insects was based on the structure of the mouth. |
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