Frederick Valentine Melsheimer

Frederick Valentine Melsheimer
Born	(1749-09-25)September 25, 1749 Negenborn, Brunswick
Died	June 30, 1814(1814-06-30) (aged 64) Hanover, Pennsylvania
Nationality	German
Citizenship	American
Scientific career
Fields	Entomology
Institutions	Religious minister

The Reverend Frederick Valentine Melsheimer (September 25, 1749, Negenborn, Brunswick – June 30, 1814, Hanover, Pennsylvania) was a Lutheran clergyman and early American entomologist, called the "Father of American Entomology" by successor Thomas Say. He was the author of the first major entomological work in the United States: A Catalogue of Insects of Pennsylvania (1806), a sixty-page work that describes 1,363 species of beetles.