Jacob Theodor Klein

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).

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

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

External links

* [http://mdz.bib-bvb.de/digbib/lexika/adb/images/adb016/@ebt-link?target=idmatch(entityref,adb0160094) ADB]
* [http://www.staff.uni-marburg.de/~gornig/danzig/geschichte.htm Geschichte der Danziger Naturforschenden Gesellschaft]