Frederick Valentine Melsheimer
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1749 – 1814
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Who was Frederick Valentine Melsheimer?
The Reverend Frederick Valentine Melsheimer was a Lutheran clergyman and early American entomologist, called the "Father of American Entomology" by successor Thomas Say. He was the author of the first major entomological work in the United States: A Catalogue of Insects of Pennsylvania, a sixty-page work that describes 1,363 species of beetles.
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