Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus - Insecta musaei Graecensis p

Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus (4 October 1723 – 29 April 1798) was an

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

n entomologist. In his branch of natural history, the short name Poda refers to him. Poda was born and died in

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. He was the author of ''Insecta Musei Graecensis'' (1761), the first purely entomological work to follow the

binomial nomenclature In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...

Carl Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his Nobility#Ennoblement, ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalise ...

External links

Landes Museum
* Insecta musaei Graecensis (Pdf) at

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1723 births 1798 deaths Scientists from Vienna Austrian entomologists {{Austria-scientist-stub