Johann August Ephraim Goeze

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Johann August Ephraim Goeze (28 May 1731 - 27 June 1793) was a German zoologist from Aschersleben.

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, which whom he had four children. In 1751, he became a pastor at Aschersleben et Quedlinburg, and later of the church of Blasius in 1762, finally becoming first deacon of the seminary of Quedlinburg in 1787.

He did much work with aquatic invertebrates, particularly insects and worms. In 1773, he was the first to describe tardigrades.

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• 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.