Nathanael Matthaeus von Wolf
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Nathanael Matthaeus von Wolf ( 24 January 1724 in Konitz, East Prussia - 15 December 1782 in Danzig (Gdańsk)) was a physician and astronomer. He spent most of his adult life in Danzig.
He studied medicine at the University of Erfurt and received his M.D. en 1748. He became the personal doctor of Teodor Kazimierz Czartoryski, the Prince-bishop of Poznan, until his death in 1768. He then opened a private office in 1769 at Dirschau and then at Danzig in 1772.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1777.
[edit] Works
- WOLF (Nathanael Matheus von) [1]
- Genera et Species Plantarum vocabulis charactericis definita. Marienwerder, Typis Joan. Jac. Kanteri, 1781
- Genera Plantarum, Vocabulis characteristica... S.l. 1776
- Concordantia Botanica. (A la fin) Dantisci, Muller, 1780
[edit] References
- J.C. Poggendorff (1863). Biographisch-Literarisches Handwörterbuch zur geschichte der exacten wissenschaften. Verlag von Johann Ambrosius Barth. (Leipzig).