Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst (1 November 1743 – 5 November 1807) was a German
naturalist and
entomologist from
Petershagen
Petershagen is a town in the Minden-Lübbecke district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It lies on the Westphalian Mill Route. The core is formed by the districts of Petershagen and Lahde, located opposite each other on the Weser.
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,
Minden-Ravensberg
Minden-Ravensberg was a Prussian administrative unit consisting of the Principality of Minden and the County of Ravensberg from 1719–1807. The capital was Minden. In 1807 the region became part of the Kingdom of Westphalia, a client state ...
. He served as a chaplain in the Prussian army. His marriage in
Berlin
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, 1770, with Euphrosyne Luise Sophie (1742–1805), daughter of the Prussian ''Hofrat'' Libert Waldschmidt seems to have been childless.
''Deutsche Biografie''
He was the joint editor, with Carl Gustav Jablonsky Carl Gustav Jablonsky (1756 – 25 May 1787) was a Berlin naturalist, entomologist and illustrator. He was also the private secretary to the Queen of Prussia, Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern. He died at the age of 31. He w ...
, of ''Naturgeschichte der in- und ausländischen Insekten'' (1785–1806, 10 volumes), which was one of the first attempts at a complete survey of the order Coleoptera. Herbst's ''Naturgeschichte der Krabben und Krebse'', released in installments, was the first full survey of crustaceans.
Herbst's other works included ''Anleitung zur Kenntnis der Insekten'' (1784–86, 3 volumes), ''Naturgeschichte der Krabben und Krebse'' (1782–1804, 3 volumes), ''Einleitung zur Kenntnis der Würmer'' (1787–88, 2 volumes) and ''Natursystem der ungeflügelten Insekten'' (Classification of the unwinged insects) (1797–1800, 4 parts).
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Natursystem der Ungeflügelten Insekten(Viertes Heft)
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Zoologica
Göttingen State and University Library
1743 births
1807 deaths
People from Petershagen
German carcinologists
German lepidopterists
German naturalists
People from Minden (state)
German chaplains
18th-century German zoologists
19th-century German zoologists
Prussian Army personnel
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