Joachim Anton Johann Nepomuk Spalowsky (1752 Vienna – 1797 Vienna) was an naturalist and polymath who lived in Vienna.
"He was a surgeon attached to the civic regiments of Vienna."[1]
Spalowsky's 1795 treatise on conchology, Prodromus in Systema Historicum Testaceorum,[2] published by the widow of Ignaz Alberti, includes original descriptions of several new species. He also wrote works on birds, plants, and mammals, including Beytrag zur Naturgeschichte der Vögel (1790–95).
He was a Member of the Royal Czech Society of Sciences.
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- ^ Spalowsky, Joachim Anton Johann Nepomuk. "Introduction to a Systematic History of Shelled Animals". World Digital Library (in Latin and German). Retrieved 1 March 2014.
- ^ "Introduction to a Systematic History of Shelled Animals". wdl.org.
- Alan R Kabat, 1996. J.J.N.A. Spalowsky (1752–97) and the Prodromus in Systema Historicum Testaceorum (1795). Archives of Natural History (1996) 23 (2): 245–54