Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson

Deceased Person

1809 – 1848

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Who was Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson?

Dr Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson was a German entomologist.

He was the author of many articles about insects mainly in Archiv für Naturgeschichte. He wrote a paper in 1842 on insect species collected at Woolnorth in Tasmania, Australia, which was the first detailed research published on the biogeography of Australian animals and was very influential in raising scientific interest in the Australian fauna.

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Born
Nov 26, 1809
Stralsund
Nationality
  • Germany
Lived in
  • Stralsund
Died
Dec 18, 1848
Berlin

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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