Johann Heinrich Sulzer

Johann Heinrich Sulzer ( born September 18, 1735 in Winterthur, † August 14, 1814 ) was a Swiss physician and entomologist.

Sulzer in Winterthur lived and worked there as a doctor. As such, he wrote publications for Hans Conrad Rahn's " Medical Archive». As a scientist, he was the author of The characteristics of insects ( 1761) and Abbreviated History of insects after Linaeischen system (1776 ), two of the first books about insects that used the system of Linnaeus.