Frederick Valentine Melsheimer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Frederick Valentine Melsheimer

German-American clergyman and entomologist

Date of Birth: 25-Sep-1749

Place of Birth: Negenborn, Lower Saxony, Germany

Date of Death: 30-Jun-1814

Profession: zoologist, entomologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

The Reverend Frederick Valentine Melsheimer (September 25, 1749, Negenborn, Brunswick – June 30, 1814, Hanover, Pennsylvania) 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 (1806), a sixty-page work that describes 1,363 species of beetles.