Johann Friedrich Wolff

Johann Friedrich Wolff (1778 to 1806) was a German physician, botanist, entomologist and natural history illustrator whose short life fell almost wholly within the first years of the nineteenth century. He wrote and illustrated Commentatio de Lemna, published at Altdorf and Nuremberg in 1801, and Icones Cimicum descriptionibus illustratae, issued at Erlangen between 1800 and 1811, along with some short papers. Wolff is credited as the author of several genera and species of Hemiptera. The source available says nothing further about his medical training or practice, so he is recorded here as a physician-naturalist whose surviving work lies in botany and entomology, and the account is deliberately limited to what that source states.