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Fabricius was born at Tondern in Schleswig. He studied at Altona and Copenhagen, before transferring to Uppsala, where he attended the lectures of Carl von Linné. He mainly worked with arthropods and was a specialist on insects. He was professor of natural history, economy and finance at Kiel from 1775.
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