Background
He was the son of Johann Heinrich and Catherine Margarete (née Kirchhoff).
lepidopterist naturalist Zoologist
He was the son of Johann Heinrich and Catherine Margarete (née Kirchhoff).
He studied theology at University of Halle.
In 1751, he became a pastor in Aschersleben, in Quedlinburg, and later of Saint Blasius" Church in Quedlinburg in 1762, finally becoming first deacon of the seminary of Quedlinburg in 1787. He died in Quedlinburg. He did much work with aquatic invertebrates, particularly insects and worms.
In 1773, he was the first to describe tardigrades.
In 1784, Goeze perceived the similarities between the heads of tapeworms found in human intestinal tract and the invaginated heads of C. cellulosae in pigs.