Georg Adolf Suckow sometimes Adolph (28 January 1751,

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– 13 March 1813,

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) was a German

physicist A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate caus ...

chemist A chemist (from Greek ''chēm(ía)'' alchemy; replacing ''chymist'' from Medieval Latin ''alchemist'') is a scientist trained in the study of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties. Chemists carefully describe th ...

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and naturalist. Suckow was a professor of physics, chemistry, and natural history at the

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. He wrote many books and articles on chemistry, botany, zoology and mineralogy. From 1808 he was a Member of the

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. His son Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Suckow (1770–1838) was also a naturalist.

Works

* ''Von dem Nutzen der Chymie zum Behuf des bürgerlichen Lebens, und der Oekonomie. Nebst Ankündigung der Lesestunden des Sommers halben Jahres 1775 bei der kurfürstlichen oekonomischen Schule zu Lautern, von G.A. Suckow, der A.D. Professor der theoretischen Wissenschaften, und beständigen Sekretair der Kurfürstlichen oekonomischen Gesellschaft. Mannheim/Lautern'' (1775) * ''Oekonomische Botanik''. (1777) * ''Versuche über die Wirkungen verschiedener Luftarten auf die Vegetation''. (1782) * ''Diagnose der Pflanzengattungen''. (1792) * ''Anfangsgrunde der theoretischen und angewandten Naturgeschichte der Thiere'' Leipzig: Weissmann. A six volume work. part I. Mammals. 1797. II. Birds 1800 & 1801. III. Amphibia. 1798. IV. Fish 1799 V Reptiles 1798?,VI Invertebrates. Variously bound, variously dated. The volumes appear to be out of date order.

References

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German naturalists German ornithologists 1751 births 1813 deaths Heidelberg University faculty {{ornithologist-stub