Jacob Theodor Klein

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Jacob Theodor Klein ( 15 August 1685 - 27 February 1759) was a Prussian jurist, historian, botanist, mathematician and diplomat. He was also a correspondent of Friedrich Christian Lesser and a member of the Royal Society in London.

Klein was born in Danzig (Gdańsk). 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 (Preußen) (now Kaliningrad, Russia).

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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

[edit] 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