August Wilhelm Knoch
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August Wilhelm Knoch was a German naturalist
Natural history
Natural history is the scientific research of plants or animals, leaning more towards observational rather than experimental methods of study, and encompasses more research published in magazines than in academic journals. Grouped among the natural sciences, natural history is the systematic study...

 born in Braunschweig
Braunschweig
Braunschweig , is a city of 247,400 people, located in the federal-state of Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located north of the Harz mountains at the farthest navigable point of the Oker river, which connects to the North Sea via the rivers Aller and Weser....

. He was a professor of physics at Collegium Carolinum
Collegium Carolinum
Collegium Carolinum may refer to* the historic building of the Charles University in Prague* TU Braunschweig in Germany was founded in 1745 as Collegium Carolinum* a former scientific society in Kassel, founded 1709...

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He was the author of the following works in entomology
Entomology
Entomology is the scientific study of insects, a branch of arthropodology...

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  • Beyträge zur Insektengeschichte Leipzig (Schwickert). three volumes 1781, 1782, 1783
  • Neue Beyträge zur Insectenkunde Leipzig (Schwickert) 1801.
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