Education
University of Tübingen.
naturalist physician university professor
University of Tübingen.
In 1768 he obtained his doctorate from the University of Tübingen, where from 1774 to 1801, he served as a professor of chemistry, botany and natural history. He is the taxonomic authority of the genus Mellivora, whose only species is the honey badger (Mellivora capensis).
Russian Academy of Sciences.