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Ernst Friedrich Germar
German entomologist (1786–1853)
Ernst Friedrich Germar (3 November 1786 – 8 July 1853) was a German professor and director of the Mineralogical Museum at Halle. As well as being a mineralogist he was interested in entomology and particularly in the Coleoptera and Hemiptera. He monographed the heteropteran family Scutelleridae.
In 1845, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.