Jan Krzysztof Kluk

Jan Krzysztof Kluk (September 13, 1739 – July 2, 1796) was a Polish naturalist agronomist and entomologist.

[citation needed] He was a man with universal interests, but known mostly as a naturalist studying mainly the regions of Podlaskie and Masovia.

[citation needed] Princess Anna Jabłonowska gave him access to the great library and natural science collections in her palace of Siemiatycze.

[3] He wrote a multi-volume work Zwierząt domowych i dzikich, osobliwie krajowych historii naturalnej początki i gospodarstwo (in English The natural history of domestic and (Polish) wild animals and of farm animals) published in Warsaw in 1780.

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