Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber
Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber | |
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| Born | 17 January 1739 |
| Died | 10 December 1810(aged 71) |
| Occupation(s) | Naturalist,professor |
Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber(17 January 1739 – 10 December 1810), often styledJ.C.D. von Schreber,was a Germannaturalist.
Career
[edit]Schreber was appointed professor ofmateria medicaat theUniversity of Erlangenin 1769.
In 1774, he began writing a multivolume set of books entitledDie Säugethiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen,which focused on themammalsof the world. Many of the animals included were given a scientific name for the first time, following the binomial system ofCarl Linnaeus.From 1791 until his death in 1810, he was the president of theGerman Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.He was elected a member of theRoyal Swedish Academy of Sciencesin 1787. In April 1795, he was elected aFellow of the Royal Society[1]Numerous honors were bestowed on him, including the office of animperial count palatine.[2]
Schreber also wrote onentomology,notablySchreberi Novae Species Insectorvm.Hisherbariumcollection has been preserved in theBotanische Staatssammlung Münchensince 1813.
Works
[edit]- Beschreibung der Gräser(1.1769 - 3.1810)
- Lithographia Halensis(1758)
- Schreberi Novae Species Insectorvm(1759)
- Die Säugetiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen(1.1774 - 64.1804)[3]
- Theses medicae(1761)
Gallery
[edit]Plates fromDie Säugetiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen1774-1804.
References
[edit]- ^"Library and Archive Catalogue".The Royal Society. Archived fromthe originalon 29 September 2011.Retrieved12 October2010.
- ^"Schreber, Joh. Christian Daniel (v.)" by Ernst Wunschmann in:Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie,herausgegeben von der Historischen Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, vo. 32 (1891), pp. 465–466, Digital edition inWikisource,Version from March 8, 2011
- ^"Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber".biodiversitylibrary.org.
- ^International Plant Names Index.Schreb.
External links
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- 1739 births
- 1810 deaths
- 18th-century German botanists
- 19th-century German botanists
- 18th-century German zoologists
- 19th-century German zoologists
- People from Weißensee, Thuringia
- Imperial counts palatine
- Edlers of Germany
- German entomologists
- German taxonomists
- University of Erlangen-Nuremberg alumni
- Presidents of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- Fellows of the Royal Society
- Honorary members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences
- Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- 18th-century German naturalists