Jacob Theodor Klein

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Jacob Theodor Klein nickname Plinius Gedanensium (15 August 1685 – 27 February 1759) was a Royal Prussian jurist, historian, botanist, mathematician and diplomat in service of Polish King August II the Strong. He was also a correspondent of Friedrich Christian Lesser and a member of the Royal Society in London and Danzig Research Society.

Klein was born in Danzig (Gdańsk) in Polish Royal Prussia. His son-in-law was Daniel Gralath, a physicist who would become mayor. Klein studied natural history and used his position as the secretary of the city of Danzig to found a botanical garden there (now called Ogród Botaniczny w Oliwie).

Klein died in Königsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia).

[edit] Works

• Natürliche Ordnung und vermehrte Historie der vierfüssigen Thiere. Schuster, Danzig 1760
• Vorbereitung zu einer vollständigen Vögelhistorie. Schmidt, Leipzig, Lübeck 1760
• Stemmata avium. Holle, Leipzig 1759
• Tentamen herpetologiae. Luzac jun., Leiden, Göttingen 1755
• Doutes ou observations de M. Klein, sur la revûe des animaux, faite par le premier homme, sur quelques animaux des classes des quadrupedes & amphibies du systême de la nature, de M. Linnaeus. Bauche, Paris 1754
• Ordre naturel des oursins de mer et fossiles, avec des observations sur les piquans des oursins de mer, et quelques remarques sur les bélemnites ... Bauche, Paris 1754
• Tentamen methodi ostracologicæ  sive  Dispositio naturalis cochlidum et concharum in suas classes, genera et species. Wishoff, Leiden 1753
• Quadrupedum dispositio brevisque historia naturalis. Schmidt, Leipzig 1751
• Historiae avium prodromus. Schmidt, Lübeck 1750
• Mantissa ichtyologica de sono et auditu piscium  sive  Disquisitio rationum, quibus autor epistolae in Bibliotheca Gallica de auditu piscium, omnes pisces mutos surdosque esse, contendit. Leipzig 1746
• Historiæ piscium naturlais promovendæ missus quartus de piscibus per branchias apertas spirantibus ad justum numerum et ordinem redigendis. Gleditsch & Schreiber, Leipzig, Danzig 1744
• Summa dubiorum circa classes quadrupedum et amphibiorum in celebris domini Caroli Linnaei systemate naturae. Leipzig, Danzig 1743
• Naturalis dispositio echinodermatum. Schreiber, Danzig 1734
• Descriptiones tubulorum marinorum. Knoch, Danzig 1731
• An Tithymaloides. Schreiber, Danzig 1730

[edit] Literature

• Geus, Armin: Die Kontroverse von R. A. F. de Réaumur und J. Th. Klein über Bau und Wachstum der Schneckenschalen. in Janus. no. 65, Amsterdam 1978

[edit] External links

• ADB
• Geschichte der Danziger Naturforschenden Gesellschaft

This article is based on a translation of the article Jacob Theodor Klein from the German Wikipedia.