Carl Gustav Jablonsky (1756 – 25 May 1787) was a

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entomologist Entomology (from Ancient Greek ἔντομον (''éntomon''), meaning "insect", and -logy from λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study") is the branch of zoology that focuses on insects. Those who study entomology are known as entomologists. In ...

and

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. He was also the private secretary to the Queen of

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. He died at the age of 31. He willed his works to his colleague,

Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst (1 November 1743 – 5 November 1807) was a German natural history, naturalist and entomologist from Petershagen, Minden-Ravensberg. He served as a chaplain in the Prussian army. His marriage in Berlin, 1770, with E ...

, who became a naturalist and entomologist. Jablonsky's ''Natursystem'' is one of the first attempts at a complete survey of the order

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Works

With

, ''Natursystem aller bekannten in- und ausländischen Insecten, als eine Fortzetsung der von Büffonschen Naturgeschichte. Nach dem System des Ritters Carl von Linné bearbeitet: Käfer''

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Plates from Natursystem Insekten:Käfer at the University of Copenhagen libraryZoologica

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Digitised ''Natursystem Insekten'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Jablonsky, Carl Gustav 1756 births 1787 deaths German entomologists 18th-century German naturalists Coleopterists Naturalists from the Kingdom of Prussia 19th-century German naturalists Zoologists from the Kingdom of Prussia