Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug

Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug was a German entomologist, born in Berlin in 1775 and died there in 1856. He was professor of medicine and entomology at the University of Berlin, now the Humboldt University, where he curated the insect collections from 1810 to 1856, and at the same time he directed the botanic garden in Berlin. He worked mainly on Hymenoptera and Coleoptera and described the butterflies and some other insects of Upper Egypt and Arabia for the Symbolae Physicae of Ehrenberg and Hemprich, published between 1829 and 1845. The plant genus Klugia, now called Rhynchoglossum, and the butterflies Geitoneura klugii and Heliophisma klugii were named in his honour. In 1855 he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.