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{{Short description|German physician, chemist and naturalist}}
[[File:Gottlob Conrad Christian Storr 1819.jpg|right|thumb|Gottlieb Conrad Christian Storr]]
'''Gottlieb Conrad Christian Storr''' (June 16, 1749, [[Stuttgart]] – February 27, 1821, [[Tübingen]]) was a German [[physician]], [[chemist]], and [[natural history|naturalist]].
In 1768 he obtained his doctorate from the [[University of Tübingen]], where he also served as a professor of [[chemistry]], [[botany]], and [[natural history]] from 1774 to 1801.<ref name=MN>[http://www.minrec.org/libdetail.asp?id=1345 Curtis Schuh’s Biobibliography of Mineralogy. The Mineralogical Record] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130326062043/http://minrec.org/libdetail.asp?id=1345 |date=2013-03-26 }} biographical information</ref> He is the [[taxonomic authority]] of several genera, including ''[[Mellivora]]'', whose only species is the [[honey badger]] (''Mellivora capensis'').<ref>[https://www.gbif.org/species/107440672 GBIF] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222053425/http://www.gbif.org/species/107440672 |date=2014-02-22 }} Mellivora Storr, 1780</ref><ref>[http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1644/721?journalCode=mmsp Bioone Mammalian Species] Mellivora capensis</ref>
== Published works ==
In 1781 he performed extensive scientific investigations in the [[Swiss Alps]], publishing "''{{lang|de|Alpenreise vom Jahre 1781}}''" (1784–86, 2 vols.) as a result.<ref name=MN/> Other noted written efforts by Storr include:
* "{{lang|la|Dissertatio inauguralis medica, de curis viperinis}}", 1768 (with [[Ferdinand Christoph Oetinger]]).
* ''{{lang|de|Entwurf einer Folge von Unterhaltungen zur Einleitung in die Naturgeschichte}}'', 1777.
* ''{{lang|de|Ueber seine Bearbeitungsart der Naturgeschichte}}'', 1780.
* "{{lang|la|Investigandae crystallifodinarum oeconomiae quaedam pericula}}", 1785.<ref>[http://orlabs.oclc.org/identities/lccn-no94-28115/ WorldCat Identities] Most widely held works by Gottlieb Konrad Christian Storr</ref><ref>[http://www.worldcat.org/identities/np-storr,%20gottlieb%20konrad%20christian$chemiker%20botaniker%20mediziner$1749%201821/ WorldCat] Gottlieb Konrad Christian Storr. Chemiker, Botaniker, Mediziner. 1749-1821</ref>
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=hKpAAAAAcAAJ "Idea methodi fossilium"], 1807.
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