Georg Heinrich Borowski was a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 zoologist

Zoology

Zoology |zoölogy]]), is the branch of biology that relates to the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct...

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Georg Heinrich Borowski was professor in the department of natural history

Natural history

Natural history is the scientific research of plants or animals, leaning more towards observational rather than experimental methods of study, and encompasses more research published in magazines than in academic journals. Grouped among the natural sciences, natural history is the systematic study...

 and domestic economics

Economics

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 at the University of Viadrina. In 1781 he described scientifically the Humpback whale

Humpback Whale

The humpback whale is a species of baleen whale. One of the larger rorqual species, adults range in length from and weigh approximately . The humpback has a distinctive body shape, with unusually long pectoral fins and a knobbly head. It is an acrobatic animal, often breaching and slapping the...

 (Megaptera novaeangliae) under the name Balaena novaeangliae[1] in Gemmeinnnüzige Naturgeschichte des Thierreichs. "Gottlieb August Lange, Berlin." 1, pages 1-21 (1781)

Footnotes
1. ↑ Phillip J. Clapham, James G. Mead. Megaptera novaeangliae. "Mammalian Species." 604, pages 1-9 (1999) (in English).

External Links

• BHL Digitised Gemmeinnnüzige Naturgeschichte des Thierreichs (1780- 1789)

Georg Heinrich Borowski, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst

Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst

Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst was a German naturalist and entomologist from Petershagen, Minden-Ravensberg....

 and Daniel Friedrich Sotzmann :de:Daniel Friedrich Sotzmann