Herbst

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Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst, 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.

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.

Naturgeschichte der in- und ausländischen Insekten (1783–1806, 10 Volumens), Available online: Band 1, Band 2, Band 3, Band 4, Band 5, Band 6, Band 7, Band 8, Band 9 and Band 10

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