# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/johann-christoph-friedrich-klug
# Generated: 2026-08-16T08:25:36.551Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/johann-christoph-friedrich-klug"
name: "Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug"
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description: "Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug, was a German entomologist.\nHe described the butterflies and some other insects of Upper Egypt and Arabia in Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg and Wilhelm Friedrich Hemprich's Symbolæ Physicæ. He was professor of medicine and entomology in the University of Berlin where he curated the insect collections from 1810 to 1856. At the same time he directed the Botanic Garden in Berlin which contains his collections. Klug worked mainly on Hymenoptera and Coleoptera. The plant genus Klugia was named in his honour as well as the butterflies Geitoneura klugii and Heliophisma klugii."
tagline: "German entomologist (1775–1856)"
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birthDate: "1775-05-05"
deathDate: "1856-02-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump