Friedrich Siegmund Voigt

Friedrich Siegmund Voigt
Born 1791
Gotha
Died December 10, 1850
Nationality German
Fields Zoology, Botany
Author abbrev. (botany) F.Voigt
Author abbrev. (zoology) Voigt

Friedrich Siegmund (Sigismund) Voigt (Voight) (1781 - 1850) was a German zoologist and botanist, with a special interest in spermatophytes. He taught at Jena, where he translated Georges Cuvier's Le Règne Animal (1817), and was the director of the Jena Botanical Gardens (from 1807 to 1850)[1] and the Museum of Zoology.

He proposed a classification of the animal kingdom with nine classes, based on body structure, such as those that are soft and gelatinous, those that are articulated and have an exoskeleton, and those that have an endoskeleton.

Publications

References

  1. BHL Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
  2. IPNI.  F.Voigt.

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