Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug was a German

Germany

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 entomologist born 5 May 1775 in Berlin

Berlin

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 and died 3 February 1856 in the same city.
He described the butterflies and some other insects of Upper Egypt

Egypt

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 and Arabia in Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg

Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg

Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg , German naturalist, zoologist, comparative anatomist, geologist, and microscopist, was one of the most famous and productive scientists of his time.- Early collections :...

 and Wilhelm Friedrich Hemprich's Symbolæ Physicæ (Berlin, 1829-1845). He was professor of medicine

Medicine

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 and entomology in the Humboldt-Universitat

Humboldt Museum

The Museum für Naturkunde, officially the ' or Naturkundemuseum , occasionally known as the Humboldt Museum, is a natural history museum in Berlin, Germany. Usually the museum's name is abbreviated MFN...

 (University of Berlin) where he curated the insect collections from 1810 to 1856. At the same time he directed the Botanic Garden in Berlin

Botanical Garden in Berlin

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 which contains his collections. Klug worked mainly on Hymenoptera

Hymenoptera

Hymenoptera is one of the largest orders of insects, comprising the sawflies, wasps, bees and ants. There are over 130,000 recognized species, with many more remaining to be described. The name refers to the heavy wings of the insects, and is derived from the Ancient Greek ὑμήν : membrane and...

 and Coleoptera. The plant genus Klugia (now called Rhynchoglossum, Family Gesneriaceae

Gesneriaceae

Gesneriaceae is a family of flowering plants consisting of ca. 150 genera and ca. 3,200 species in the Old World and New World tropics and subtropics, with a very small number extending to temperate areas. Many species have colorful and showy flowers and are cultivated as ornamental plants.Most...

) was named in his honour as was the butterfly Geitoneura klugii

Geitoneura klugii

The Common Xenica or Klug's Xenica is a species of butterfly belonging to the Nymphalidae family of the Lepidoptera order. It is a southern Australian butterfly that is easily camouflaged because of its resemblance to the ground where it is usually found fluttering. It can be identified based on...

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In 1855, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences or Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien is one of the Royal Academies of Sweden. The Academy is an independent, non-governmental scientific organization which acts to promote the sciences, primarily the natural sciences and mathematics.The Academy was founded on 2...

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Works

(Partial List)

• Die Blattwespen nach ihren Gattungen und Arten zusammengestellt. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 6: 45-62, 276-310 (1814).
• Entomologische Monographieen. Berlin. p. 172-196 (1824).
• Berich über eine auf Madagascar veranstaltete Sammlung von Insecten aus der Ordnung Coleoptera. Abhandlungen der Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften, pp. 91–223 (1833).
• Uebersicht der Tenthredinetae der Sammlung (des Berliner entomologischen Museums). Jahrbücher der Insektenkunde 1: 233-253 (1834).
• With Carl Heinrich Hopffer
  Carl Heinrich Hopffer
  Carl Heinrich Hopffer was a German entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera.Hopffer was a curator at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin. He described many new species mainly in the following works....
  
  and illustrated by Bernhard Wienker and Neue Schmetterlinge der Insekten-Sammlung des Königl. Zoologischen Musei der Universität zu Berlin Hft. (Volume) 1 - 2 Berlin : Bei dem Herausgeber BHL (1836)
• Fortsetzung der Diagnosen der neuen (und bereits seit mehreren Monaten vollständig gedruckten) Coleopteren, welche die Insectensendungen des Herrn Dr. Peters von Mossambique enthalten hatten, von der Familie der Staphylinii an bis zu den Lamelicornia, diese mit eingeschlossen.Berichten der Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin 20: 643-660 (1855)
• Ueber die Geschlechtsverschiedenheit der Piezaten. Erster Haelfte der Fabriciusschen Gattungen. Mag. Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin 1: 68-80. (1807)