Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben


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 and Systema regni animalis. 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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