Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben



Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben (June 22, 1744 - August 19, 1777) was a German naturalist.

Erxleben was Professor of physics and veterinary medicine at the Georg-August-University in Göttingen. He wrote Anfangsgründe der Naturlehre and Systema regni animalis (1777). He was founder of the first academic Veterinary School in Germany (Institute of Veterinary Medicine) in 1771.

He was Dorothea Christiane Erxleben's son, who was the first woman in Germany to be promoted to a medical doctor.1