Anton August Heinrich Lichtenstein
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Anton August Heinrich Lichtenstein (1753 - 1816) was a German zoologist. He was the father of Martin Heinrich Carl Lichtenstein.
Lichtenstein was a doctor of theology and philosophy, professor of oriental languages, and from 1782 onwards principal of the Johanneum in Hamburg. He was a library assistant (1794-1796) and the director (1796-1798) of the public library of Hamburg. In 1798 he was appointed professor at the University of Helmstedt.
He was the author of Catalogus Rerum Naturalium Rarissimarum (1793) and Catalogus Musei zoologici ditissimi Hamburgi (1796), and contributed to Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst's Natursystem der ungeflügelten Insekten (1797).
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