Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst

German naturalist and entomologist (1743-1807)

Date of Birth: 01-Nov-1743

Place of Birth: Petershagen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Date of Death: 05-Nov-1807

Profession: naturalist, lepidopterist, biologist, carcinologist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst (1 November 1743 – 5 November 1807) was a German naturalist and entomologist from Petershagen, Minden-Ravensberg.
He served as a chaplain in the Prussian army.
His marriage in Berlin, 1770, with Euphrosyne Luise Sophie (1742–1805), daughter of the Prussian Hofrat Libert Waldschmidt seems to have been childless.He was the joint editor, with Carl Gustav Jablonsky, of Naturgeschichte der in- und ausländischen Insekten (1785–1806, 10 volumes), which was one of the first attempts at a complete survey of the order Coleoptera.
Herbst's Naturgeschichte der Krabben und Krebse, released in installments, was the first full survey of crustaceans. Herbst's other works included Anleitung zur Kenntnis der Insekten (1784–86, 3 volumes), Naturgeschichte der Krabben und Krebse (1782–1804, 3 volumes), Einleitung zur Kenntnis der Würmer (1787–88, 2 volumes) and Natursystem der ungeflügelten Insekten (Classification of the unwinged insects) (1797–1800, 4 parts).