Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben

Johann Christian Erxleben

Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben (1744-1777)
Born 22 June 1744
Quedlinburg
Died 19 August 1777
Göttingen
Fields Naturalist
Institutions University of Göttingen
Alma mater University of Göttingen
Doctoral advisor Abraham Gotthelf Kästner
Doctoral students Christian von Weigel
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He was the son of Dorothea Christiane Erxleben.

Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben (22 June 1744  19 August 1777) was a German naturalist from Quedlinburg.

Erxleben was Professor of physics and veterinary medicine at the University of Göttingen. He wrote Anfangsgründe der Naturlehre (1772) and Systema regni animalis (1777). He was founder of the first and oldest academic Veterinary School in Germany, the Institute of Veterinary Medicine, in 1771.

He was Dorothea Christiane Erxleben's son, who was the first woman in Germany to be promoted to a medical doctor.

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