Johann Christian Ludwig Hellwig: Difference between revisions

'''Johann Christian Ludwig Hellwig''' was a ([[GermanNovember 8]] , [[entomologist1743]] born on, [[November 8Garz]] , -[[1743October 10]] in, [[Garz1831]]) was and died ona [[October 10German]] , [[1831entomologist]].

After studies of [[mathematics]] and [[natural history]] at the university of [[Frankfurt]] , he became, in 1766, adviser to prince [[Wilhelm Adolf von Braunschweig]] at the time of his voyage in the south of Russia.

He exerted a great influence on his pupils. He was the tutor and the father-in-law of the German entomologist [[Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger]] (1775-1813), who became director of the zoological garden of [[Berlin]], of the mineralogist [[Gottlieb Peter Sillem]] (who succeeded him at the school of Braunschweig ) and the count [[Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg]] (1766-1849).

He was also the inventor of “Kriegsspiel”"Kriegsspiel" (literally playwar of wargame), an alternative to a set of [military] failures which had much success in its time.