Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller (25 April 1725 – 5 January 1776) was a German
zoologist
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Statius Müller was born in
Esens, and was a professor of natural science at
Erlangen
Erlangen (; , ) is a Middle Franconian city in Bavaria, Germany. It is the seat of the administrative district Erlangen-Höchstadt (former administrative district Erlangen), and with 119,810 inhabitants (as of 30 September 2024), it is the smalle ...
. Between 1773 and 1776, he published a German translation of
Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming o ...
's ''
Natursystem''. The supplement in 1776 contained the first
scientific classification for a number of species, including the
dugong,
guanaco,
potto,
tricolored heron,
umbrella cockatoo,
red-vented cockatoo, and the enigmatic
hoatzin. He was also an
entomologist
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Müller died in Erlangen.
He is not to be confused with
Salomon Müller (1804–1864), also an ornithologist, or with
Otto Friedrich Müller
Otto Friedrich Müller, also known as Otto Friedrich Mueller (2 November 1730 – 26 December 1784) was a Denmark, Danish natural history, naturalist and scientific illustrator.
Biography
Müller was born in Copenhagen. He was educated for the ch ...
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Works
*Statius Müller, P. L. 1776. ''Des Ritters Carl von Linné Königlich Schwedischen Leibarztes &c. &c. vollständigen Natursystems Supplements- und Register-Band über alle sechs Theile oder Classen des Thierreichs. Mit einer ausführlichen Erklärung. Nebst drey Kupfertafeln''.Nürnberg. (Raspe).
References
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*Evenhuis, N. L. 1997 ''Litteratura taxonomica dipterorum'' (1758-1930). Volume 1 (A-K); Volume 2 (L-Z). Leiden, Backhuys Publishers.
German entomologists
German ornithologists
1725 births
1776 deaths
German taxonomists
People from Erlangen
18th-century German zoologists
18th-century German male writers
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