Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug
Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug | |
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Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug | |
| Born | 5 May 1775 |
| Died | 3 February 1856 (aged 80) Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia |
| Alma mater | University of Halle (M.D., 1797) |
| Occupations | Entomologist; physician; academic |
| Known for | Work on Hymenoptera and Coleoptera; curator of insect collections; director of Berlin Botanical Garden |
| Honours | Genus Klugia (now Rhynchoglossum), butterflies Geitoneura klugii and Heliophisma klugii named in his honour; foreign member, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1855) |
Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug (5 May 1775, in Berlin – 3 February 1856, in Berlin), was a German entomologist. He described the butterflies and some other insects of Upper Egypt and Arabia in Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg and Wilhelm Friedrich Hemprich's Symbolæ Physicæ (1829 in Berlin – 1845). He was professor of medicine and entomology in the University of Berlin (known in the present day as the Humboldt University of Berlin) where he curated the insect collections from 1810 to 1856. At the same time he directed the Botanic Garden in Berlin which contains his collections. Klug worked mainly on Hymenoptera and Coleoptera. The plant genus Klugia (now called Rhynchoglossum, Family Gesneriaceae) was named in his honour as well as the butterflies Geitoneura klugii and Heliophisma klugii.
In 1855, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.