Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson
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German entomologist and physician
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Why Is Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Dr Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson was a trained medical doctor and a German entomologist. He was the author of many articles about insects mainly in Archiv für Naturgeschichte. When writing in Latin, he latinised Wilhelm to Guillelmus becoming either Guil. F. Erichson or G.F. Erichson. He wrote a paper in 1842 on insect species collected at Woolnorth in Tasmania, Australia, which was the first detailed research published on the biogeography of Australian animals and was very influential in raising scientific interest in Australian fauna.
