Carl Wilhelm Hahn
Dr. Carl Wilhelm Hahn (lat. Carolus Guilielmus Hahn) (* December 16, 1786 – † November 7, 1835) was a German zoologist and author of the first German monograph on spiders. C. W. Hahn was an all-round natural scientist – not at all unusual for his time. Surprisingly he seems to have been almost forgotten. Even the few biographical dates, which have been published in secondary literature are not always correct as clarified by P. Sacher in his "attempt at a Biography":
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