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Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben



   

Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben (June 22, 1744 - August 19, 1777) was a German naturalist.

Erxleben was Professor of physics and veterinary medicine at the Georg-August-University in Göttingen. He wrote Anfangsgründe der Naturlehre and Systema regni animalis (1777). He was founder of the first academic Veterinary School in Germany (Institute of Veterinary Medicine) in 1771.

He was Dorothea Christiane Erxleben's son, who was the first woman in Germany to be promoted to a medical doctor.1

References

  • Gerta Beaucamp: Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben. Versuch einer Biographie und Bibliographie. (= Lichtenberg-Studien, hg. von Stefan Brüdermann und Ulrich Joost, Bd. 9). Wallstein Verlag Göttingen 1994
  • Georg Christoph Lichtenberg: Vorlesungen zur Naturlehre. Ediert nach G. Chr. Lichtenbergs annotierten Handexemplar der 4. Auflage von Johann Christian Polykarp Erxlebens "Anfangsgründe der Naturlehre", hrsg. v. d. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen. Wallstein Verlag Göttingen 2005
  • Bertram Brenig: "Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben (1744-1777) - Universalgelehrter, Naturforscher und Tierarzt". Georgia-Augusta 72, 35-44 (2000)
 
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