Johann Christian Ludwig Hellwig
Johann Christian Ludwig Hellwig is a German entomologist , born the November 8th 1743 with Garz and dead the October 10th 1831.
After studies of mathematical and Natural history at the university of Frankfurt, it becomes, in 1766, adviser of prince Wilhelm Adolf von Braunschweig (1745-1770), sixth wire of the duke Charles Ier of Brunswick, at the time of its voyage in the south of the Russia.
In 1771, he teaches in two colleges of Brunswick then obtains the pulpit of philosophy of the university of Helmstadt. In 1790, it teaches mathematics and the natural science at the military academy of Braunschweig.
He exerts a great influence on his pupils. He is thus the tutor and the father-in-law of the German entomologist Johann It (1775-1813), which will become director of the zoological garden of Berlin, of the mineralogist Gottlieb Peter Sillem (which succeeds to him the school of Braunschweig), of the mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) and of the count Johann Centurius von Hoffmannsegg (1766-1849).
Its work in Taxonomy of the Insect S in collaboration with It and Hoffmannsegg is famous and is at the origin of the entomological collections of the natural history museum of the university of Berlin.
He is also the inventor of the Kriegsspiel (literally war game ), an alternative of the set of failures which had much success in its time.
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