Friedrich Siegmund (Sigismund) Voigt (Voight) (1 October 1781 – 10 December 1850) was a

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zoologist and botanist, with a special interest in

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. He taught at

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, where he translated

Georges Cuvier Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, Baron Cuvier (; 23 August 1769 – 13 May 1832), known as Georges Cuvier, was a French natural history, naturalist and zoology, zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology". Cuvier ...

's ''Le Règne Animal'' (1817), and was the director of the Jena Botanical Gardens (from 1807 to 1850)BHL
Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications and the Museum of Zoology. He proposed a classification of the animal kingdom with nine classes, based on body structure, such as those that are soft and gelatinous, those that are articulated and have an

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, and those that have an

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Publications

* 1840. ''Lehrbuch der Zoologie: Erklärung der 22 Kupfertafeln zu Voigt's Lehrbuch der Zoologie''. Volumen 7. Editor Schweizerbart, 8 pp. * 1850
''Geschichte des Pflanzenreichs''. Volumen 2. Geschichte des Pflanzenreichs. Editor F. Mauke
* 1835
''Lehrbuch der Zoologie''. Volumen 1. Naturgeschichte der drei Reiche. Editor E. Schweizerbart, 507 pp.
* 1832
''Almanach der Natur''. Editor Frommann, 185 pp.
* 1823
''System der Natur und Ihre Geschichte''. Editor Schmid, 866 pp.
* 1817
''Grundzüge einer Naturgeschichte, als Geschichte der Entstehung und weiteren Ausbildung der Naturkörper''. Editor H.L. Brönner, 679 pp.
* 1816
Die Farben der organischen Körper''. Editor In der Crökerschen Buchhandlung, 223 pp.
* 1808
''System der Botanik''. 394 pp.
* 1806
''Darstellung des natürlichen Pflanzensystems von Jussieu, nach seinen neuesten Verbesserungen: In Tabellen''. Editor Reclam, 28 pp.
* 1803
''Handwörterbuch der botanischen Kunstsprache''. Editor Bey Wolfgang Stahl, 269 pp.

References

Bibliography

* Julius Viktor Carus (1880). ''Histoire de la zoologie depuis l’Antiquité jusqu’au XIXe siècle''. Baillière (Paris) : viii + 623 p. {{DEFAULTSORT:Voigt, Friedrich Siegmund 19th-century German botanists 19th-century German zoologists 1791 births 1850 deaths People from Gotha (town)