Johann Heinrich Sulzer

Johann Heinrich Sulzer (18 September 1735, Winterthur – 14 August 1813, Winterthur[1][2]) was a Swiss physician and entomologist.

He studied medicine at the University of Tübingen and later started a medical practice in Winterthur. As a physician he distinguished himself in his work with smallpox vaccinations. In the field of entomology, he was the author of:

  • Die Kennzeichen der Insekten, nach Anleitung des Königl. Schwed. Ritters und Leibarzts Karl Linnaeus, (...) (1761) – The characteristics of insects, according to the instructions of Carl Linnaeus.
  • Abgekürzte Geschichte der Insecten nach dern Linaeischen System (1776) – Abbreviated history of insects according to the Linnaean System.[3]
  • BHL Digitised works by Sulzer at Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  1. Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexikon (in German). Brockhaus. 1895. p. 503. ISBN 9783891312735.
  2. Strecker, Herman (1878). Butterflies and Moths of North America: With Full Instructions for Collecting, Breeding, Preparing, Classifying, Packing for Shipment, Etc., a Complete Synonymical Catalogue of Macrolepidoptera, with a Full Bibliography, to which is Added a Glossary of Terms and an Alphabetical and Descriptive List of Localities. Press of B.F. Owen. p. 277.
  3. Sulzer, Hans Heinrich Historischen Lexikon der Schweiz
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