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 | | Johann Gottlob Schneider (January 18, 1750 – January 12, 1822), German classical scholar and naturalist, was born at Koilmen in Saxony. |
| | In 1774, on the recommendation of Heyne, he became secretary to the famous Strassburg scholar R.F. Brunck, and in 1811 professor of ancient languages and eloquence at Breslau (chief librarian, 1816) where he died on the 12th of January 1822. |
| | In 1801 he corrected and expanded re-published Marcus Elieser Bloch's Systema Ichthyologiae iconibus cx illustratum, a famous catalog of fishes with beautiful illustrations that is cited (as Bloch and Schneider, 1801) as the taxonomy authority for many species of fish. |
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