Johann August Ephraim Goeze (; 28 May 1731 – 27 June 1793) was a
German zoologist, born in
Aschersleben. He is known for the discovery of
tardigrades, also called water bears. He was the son of Johann Heinrich and Catherine Margarete (née Kirchhoff). He studied
theology at
University of Halle. He married Leopoldine Maria Keller in 1770, by whom he had four children. In 1751, he became a pastor in Aschersleben, in
Quedlinburg, and later of in
Quedlinburg in 1762, finally becoming first deacon of the seminary of Quedlinburg in 1787. He died in Quedlinburg.
He did much work with aquatic
invertebrates, particularly
insects and
worms. In 1773, he was the first to describe
tardigrades. In 1784, Goeze perceived the similarities between the heads of tapeworms found in the human intestinal tract and the invaginated heads of ''
Cysticercus cellulosae'' in pigs.
Works
*Goeze, J. A. E. 1776. Verzeichnisse der Namen von Insecten und Wurmern, welche in dem Rosel, Kleemann und De Geer vorkommen. ''
Naturforscher'' 9: 61-78
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81-85.
*with
Charles De Geer ''Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der Insekten. Aus dem Französischen übersetzt und mit Anmerkungen hrsg. von Johann August Ephraim Goeze.'' Leipzig: J. C. Müller, 1776–1783.
*Goeze, J. A. E. 1782. Des Herrn Baron Karl Degeer Koniglichen Hofmarschalls .... Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der Insekten aus dem Franzosischen ubersetzt und mit Anmerkungen herausgegeben. Volume 6. 200 pp., 30 pls. Raspe, Nurnberg.
*Goeze, J. A. E. 1783. Entomologische Beyträge zu des Ritter Linné zwölften Ausgabe des Natursystems. Dritten Theiles vierter Band. - pp. I-XX, 1-178. Leipzig. (Weidmanns Erben und Reich).
References
Sources
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Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
''Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie'' (ADB, german: Universal German Biography) is one of the most important and comprehensive biographical reference works in the German language.
It was published by the Historical Commission of the Bavarian Aca ...
(ADB). Band 9, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, S. 53
online* Allen G. Debus (dir.) (1968). ''World Who’s Who in Science. A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Scientists from Antiquity to the Present.'' Marquis-Who’s Who (Chicago) : xvi + 1855 p.
1731 births
1793 deaths
German lepidopterists
People from the Principality of Halberstadt
University of Halle alumni
People from Aschersleben
18th-century German zoologists
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