Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben Explained

Birth Name:Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben
Mother:Dorothea Christiane Erxleben
Birth Place:Quedlinburg, Kingdom of Prussia
Death Place:Göttingen, Electorate of Hanover, Holy Roman Empire
Workplaces:University of Göttingen
Alma Mater:University of Göttingen
Doctoral Advisor:Abraham Gotthelf Kästner
Doctoral Students:Christian von Weigel

Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben was a German naturalist from Quedlinburg.

Erxleben was professor of physics and veterinary medicine at the University of Göttingen. He wrote Anfangsgründe der Naturlehre (1772) and Systema regni animalis (1777). He was founder of the first and oldest academic veterinary school in Germany, the Institute of Veterinary Medicine, in 1771.

He was the son of Dorothea Christiane Erxleben, the first woman in Germany to earn a medical degree.

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