Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber (
Weißensee, Thuringia, 1739 —
Erlangen, 1810), often styled
I.C.D. von Schreber, was a
German naturalist.
Career
He was elected Professor of Materia medica at the
University of Erlangen in 1769.
In 1774 He began writing a multi-volume set of books entitled
Die Säugethiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen, which focused on the
mammals of the world. Many of the animals included were given a scientific name for the first time, following the binomial system of
Carolus Linnaeus. From 1791 until his death in 1810, he was the President of the
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. He was elected a member of the
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1787. In April 1795 he was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society Numerous honors were bestowed on him including the office of an
imperial count palatine."Schreber, Joh. Christian Daniel (v.)" by Ernst Wunschmann in:
Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, herausgegeben von der Historischen Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, vo. 32 (1891), pp. 465–466, Digital edition in Wikisource, URL: http://de.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=ADB:Schreber,_Johann_Christian_Daniel_Edler_von&oldid=1161756 (Version from March 8 2011)
Schreber also wrote on
entomology notably
Schreberi Novae Species Insectorvm. His
herbarium collection has been preserved in the
Botanische Staatssammlung München since 1813.