Johann Julius Walbaum

Johann Julius Walbaum is a Médecin and a German Naturaliste , born the June 30th 1724 and dead the August 21st 1799.

It constitutes large a Cabinet of curiosities to Lubeck and is made known by its publications on the Poisson S and the tortoise S. In Ichtyologie, its principal contribution is the republication of the book Peter Artedi (1705-1735) which presents all the species known at the time increased by a bibliography updated at Walbaum.

It describes nearly 200 new species, including 43 still valid today, according to the linnéens criteria. It thus re-elects the species created by Johann David Schöpf (1752-1800), Georg Wilhelm Steller (1709-1746), Thomas Pennant (1726-1798) and Stephan Petrovich Krascheninnikov (1713-1755). This book will very severely be criticized by Georges Cuvier (1769-1832). Its work is revalued by Theodore Nicholas Gill (1837-1914) which recognizes its interest in particular for its descriptions of various kinds described by others.

List partial of the publications

Disputatio… of venæ divides , 1749
Index pharmacopolii completi cum calendario pharmaceutico , Gleditsch, Leipzig 1767-69
Beschreibung von vier bunten Taubentauchern und der Eidergans , Lübeck 1778
Chelonographia oder Beschreibung einiger Schildkröten nach natürlichen Urbildern , Gleditsch, Leipzig und Lübeck 1782

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