collection, particularly of fish specimens. He is generally considered one of the most important ichthyologists of the 18th century, and wrote many papers on natural history, comparative anatomy, and physiology.

Life

Bloch was born at Ansbach in 1723, where his father was a Torah writer and his mother owned a small shop. Educated at home in Hebrew literature, he became a private tutor in Hamburg for a Jewish surgeon. Here, he learned German, Latin, and anatomy. He

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