Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber (17 January 1739 - 10 December 1810), often styled J.C.D. von Schreber, was a German naturalist.

Career

Schreber was appointed professor of materia medica at the University of Erlangen in 1769.

In 1774, he began writing a multivolume set of books entitled Die Säugethiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen, which focused