Johann Christian Fabricius.

Johan Christian Fabricius (January 7, 1745 - March 3, 1808) was a Danish entomologist and economist. Image File history File links Subject : Fabricius Johann Christian (1745-1808) Source : F.W. Hope (1845) File links The following pages link to this file: Johan Christian Fabricius ... Image File history File links Subject : Fabricius Johann Christian (1745-1808) Source : F.W. Hope (1845) File links The following pages link to this file: Johan Christian Fabricius ... January 7 is the 7th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... // Events May 11 - War of Austrian Succession: Battle of Fontenoy - At Fontenoy, French forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian army including the Black Watch June 4 – Frederick the Great destroys Austrian army at Hohenfriedberg August 19 - Beginning of the 45 Jacobite Rising at Glenfinnan September 12 - Francis I is elected... March 3 is the 62nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (63rd in leap years). ... 1808 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Entomology is the scientific study of insects. ...

Fabricius was born at Tøndern in South Jutland. He studied at the gymnasium at Altona and entered the University of Copenhagen in 1762. Later the same year he travelled together with his friend and relative Johan Zoega to Uppsala, where he studied under Carl von Linné for two years. Sønderjyllands Amt (English: South Jutland County) is a county in southern Denmark, on the peninsula of Jutland. ... For the building see: Gym A gymnasium is a type of school of secondary education in parts of Europe. ... Altona may refer to various places: Altona, Victoria, a seaside suburb in Melbourne, Australia Altona, Illinois, a village located in Knox County, Illinois Altona, Indiana, a town located in DeKalb County, Indiana Altona, Hamburg, the westmost district in the city of Hamburg This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid... University of Copenhagen The University of Copenhagen (Danish: Københavns Universitet) is the oldest and largest university and research institution in Copenhagen, Denmark. ... Uppsala University (Swedish Uppsala universitet) is a public university in Uppsala, Sweden. ... A painting of Carolus Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as Carl von Linné   listen?, and who wrote under the Latinized name Carolus Linnaeus (May 23, 1707 – January 10, 1778), was a Swedish botanist who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of taxonomy. ...

Fabricius worked primarily with arthropods and was a specialist on insects, classifying many spiders including the black widow. He was professor of natural history, economy and finance at the University of Kiel from 1775. He was a regular visitor to London where he studied many collections. Subphyla and Classes Subphylum Trilobitomorpha Trilobita - Trilobites (extinct) Subphylum Chelicerata Arachnida - Spiders, Scorpions, etc. ... A database query syntax error has occurred. ... Families Suborder Mesothelae     Liphistiidae (primitive burrowing spiders) Suborder Mygalomorphae     Atypidae (atypical tarantula)     Antrodiaetidae (folding trapdoor spider)     Mecicobothriidae (dwarf tarantulas)     Hexathelidae (venomous funnel-web tarantula)     Dipluridae (funnel-web tarantula)     Cyrtaucheniidae (wafer trapdoor spider)     Ctenizidae (trapdoor spider)     Theraphosidae (tarantula) Suborder Araneomorphae     Hypochilidae (lampshade spider)     Filistatidae (crevice weaver)     Sicariidae (recluse spider)     Scytodidae (spitting... black widow spider (Latrodectus mactans), a poisonous spider that is infamous for the females habit of eating the male after sexual intercourse. ... Natural history is an umbrella term for what are now usually viewed as a number of distinct scientific disciplines. ... The University of Kiel, in full the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (in short: CAU), is a university in the city of Kiel, Germany. ... St. ...

His works included Genera Insectorum (1776), Species Insectorum (1781), Mantissa Insectorum (1787), and his main work, Entomologicae Systematica I-IV, (1792-1794) followed by Supplementum Entomologiae Systematicae (1798).

References

• Biography of Johan Christian Fabricius, in Dansk biografisk leksikon, 1st edition, Vol. 5 (1891), scanned original text on Projekt Runeberg (in Danish)