Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben
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Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben was a German
naturalist
from Quedlinburg
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Erxleben was Professor of physics and veterinary medicine at the University of Göttingen. He wrote Anfangsgründe der Naturlehre 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.
Germany
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naturalist
Natural history
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from Quedlinburg
Quedlinburg
Quedlinburg is a town located north of the Harz mountains, in the district of Harz in the west of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. In 1994 the medieval court and the old town was set on the UNESCO world heritage list....
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Erxleben was Professor of physics and veterinary medicine at the University of Göttingen. He wrote Anfangsgründe der Naturlehre 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.