Jacob Theodor Klein
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Jacob Theodor Klein was a German jurist, historian, botanist, zoologist, mathematician and diplomat in service to the King of Poland, Augustus II the Strong. He established a botanical garden and mena
Daniel Gralath
…law and philosophy in Halle, Leyden and Marburg from 1728 to 1734. Later he became councilman and, in 1763, mayor of Danzig. His father-in-law was Jacob Theodor Klein (1685–1759), a city secretary and a distinguished scientist, nicknamed Gedanensium Plinius. As a physicist, Gralath worked on electricity, founded the…
Portrait of Jacob Theodor Klein by Jacob Wessel (1759)
A portrait of Klein, from his time as Secretary of Danzig, featured in Historiae Piscium Naturalis
An illustration of Klein's botanical garden by Johann Mentzel (1750), featured on the title page of Klein's Historiae Avium Prodromus
Illustrations from Historiae Piscium Naturalis