Fields Natural history | Parents Dorothea Erxleben Name Johann Polycarp | |
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Institutions University of Gottingen Alma mater University of Gottingen Doctoral advisor Abraham Gotthelf Kastner Died August 19, 1777, Gottingen, Germany Grandparents Anna Sophia Meinecken, Christian Polycarpus Leporin People also search for Dorothea Erxleben, Christian Ehrenfried Weigel, Abraham Gotthelf Kastner | ||
Doctoral students Christian von Weigel Education University of Gottingen | ||
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 the son of Dorothea Christiane Erxleben, the first woman in Germany to earn a medical degree.
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