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Fabricius was born at Tøndern in South Jutland . He studied at the Gymnasium at Altona and entered the University Of Copenhagen in 1762. Later the same year he travelled together with his friend and relative Johan Zoega to Uppsala , where he studied under Carl Von Linné for two years. Fabricius worked primarily with Arthropod s and was a specialist on Insect s, classifying many Spiders including the Black Widow . He was professor of Natural History , economy and finance at the University Of Kiel from 1775. He was a regular visitor to London where he studied many collections. His works included ''Genera Insectorum'' (1776), ''Species Insectorum'' (1781), ''Mantissa Insectorum'' (1787), and his main work, ''Entomologicae Systematica I-IV'', (1792-1794) followed by ''Supplementum Entomologiae Systematicae'' (1798). REFERENCES
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