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Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst

1743 - 1807

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Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst (1 November 1743 – 5 November 1807) was a German naturalist and entomologist from Petershagen, Minden-Ravensberg. He served as a chaplain in the Prussian army. His marriage in Berlin, 1770, with Euphrosyne Luise Sophie (1742–1805), daughter of the Prussian Hofrat Libert Waldschmidt, seems to have been childless. He was the joint editor, with Carl Gustav Jablonsky, of Naturgeschichte der in- und ausländischen Insekten (1785–1806, 10 volumes), which was one of the first attempts at a complete survey of the order Coleoptera. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst is the 384th most popular biologist (up from 414th in 2019), the 2,489th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,107th in 2019) and the 70th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst ranks 384 out of 1,097. Before him are John Maynard Smith, Samuel Frederick Gray, Matt Ridley, Esther Lederberg, Michał Boym, and François-Alphonse Forel. After him are Carlo Allioni, Louis Claude Richard, Johann Georg Wagler, Josias Braun-Blanquet, Nicolaas Laurens Burman, and Carl Borivoj Presl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1743, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst ranks 25. Before him are William I, Elector of Hesse, Louis Claude de Saint-Martin, Princess Carolina of Orange-Nassau, Victor Amadeus II, Prince of Carignano, Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova, and William Paley. After him are Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Johannes Ewald, Giuseppe Gazzaniga, Elisabeth Christina von Linné, and José Fernando de Abascal y Sousa. Among people deceased in 1807, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst ranks 16. Before him are Maria, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh, John Newton, Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, Nikolai Rezanov, Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, and Jacob Philipp Hackert. After him are Johannes Nikolaus Tetens, Jeremias Benjamin Richter, Jean-François Rewbell, Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Alexander Ypsilantis, and Franciszek Smuglewicz.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst ranks 2,490 out of 7,253. Before him are Friedrich Hoffmann (1660), Frederick William, Elector of Hesse (1802), Albrecht VII, Duke of Mecklenburg (1486), Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg (1865), Burkhard Christoph von Münnich (1683), and Gershon Kingsley (1922). After him are Walther Meissner (1882), Karl Lamprecht (1856), Heinz Rühmann (1902), Ernest Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1707), Franz Six (1909), and Casimir, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1481).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst ranks 70. Before him are Moritz Wagner (1813), Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach (1823), Friedrich Loeffler (1852), Fritz Müller (1822), Otto Kuntze (1843), and August Batsch (1761). After him are Johann Georg Wagler (1800), Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann (1916), Theodor Boveri (1862), Georg Eberhard Rumphius (1627), Karl Koch (1809), and Heinrich Anton de Bary (1831).

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