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Danish zoologist (1745–1808)

Johann Christian Fabricius (7 January 1745 – 3 March 1808) was a Danish zoologist, specialising in "Insecta", which at that time included all arthropods: insects, arachnids, crustaceans and others.

He was a student of Carl Linnaeus, and is considered^[1] one of the most important entomologists of the 18th century, having named nearly 10,000 species of animals, and established the basis for the modern insect classification.

Biography

Johann Christian Fabricius was born on 7 January 1745 at Tønder in the Duchy of Schleswig, where his father was a doctor.^[2][3] He studied at the gymnasium at Altona and entered the University of Copenhagen in 1762.^[4] Later the same year he travelled together with his friend and relative Johan Zoëga to Uppsala, where he studied under Carl Linnaeus for two years.^[4] On his return, he started work on his Systema entomologiae, which was fina