Friedrich Weber (3 August 1781, Kiel – 21 March 1823, Kiel) was a German physician,

botanist Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...

and

entomologist Entomology () is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arach ...

. He was a pupil of Johan Christian Fabricius (1745–1808), and wrote ' in 1795 at the age of 14 and ' in 1801. These two works contained the first descriptions of many new insect species and also first descriptions of other invertebrates like the

lobster Lobsters are a family (biology), family (Nephropidae, Synonym (taxonomy), synonym Homaridae) of marine crustaceans. They have long bodies with muscular tails and live in crevices or burrows on the sea floor. Three of their five pairs of legs ...

genus '' Homarus''.

Partial list of works

* 1795 : ''Nomenclator entomologicus secundum entomologian systematicam ill. Fabricii, adjectis speciebus recens detectis et varietatibus.'' Chiloni et Hamburgi: C.E. Bohn viii 171 pp. *1801. ''Observationes entomologicae, continentes novorum quae condidit generum characteres, et nuper detectarum specierum descriptiones''. Impensis Bibliopolii Academici Novi, Kiliae, 12 + 116 pp. erox: 112-116*with M. H. Mohr 1804. ''Naturhistorische Reise durch einen Theil Schwedens''. Göttingen.

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* 1781 births 1823 deaths 19th-century German botanists German entomologists German carcinologists 19th-century German physicians Scientists from Kiel {{Germany-zoologist-stub