Bernhardt Jungmann

Bernhardt Jungmann (* 1671 in Ronneburg, Hesse, † 1747 in Mexico ) was a German botanist and chemist.

Biography

Jungmann studied at the University of Leipzig in 1702 and took a reputation as a professor of botany and chemistry at the University of Göttingen. In 1709 he accepted an appointment as professor at the University of Giessen.

In 1712 he was commissioned Professor at Leiden University, and shortly thereafter by the Dutch government with a research trip in America. In the following years he visited successively Canada, New England, Mexico, Cuba and Puerto Rico from 1715 to 1724. He then spent some years on the Caribbean island of Saint- Eustache and Saint Lucia, before he returned in 1727 after suffering.

In the following years he published several books about his expeditions, but also essays about antiques in Mexico, which " leaves for literary entertainment," published in 1837 in Braunschweig in a reprint of.

In 1744 he again traveled to Mexico where he was, however, persecuted and imprisoned for his faith. A few days before his scheduled return to Europe, he died in Mexico of yellow fever.

Publications

• " Fasciculus plantarum rariarum et exoticarum " (Leiden, 1728)
• " Naturalis dispositio echinodermatum " (1731 )
• "Historia naturalis piscium " ( 1732)
• "Historia adium " ( 1733)
• " Tantamen methodological astrocologicae, immersive dispositio naturalis cochlidum et concharum " ( 2 volumes, 1741)
• " Methodus plantarum genuina " ( 1743)
• " Enumeratio plantarum sponte circa provenientium Mexico " (Mexico, 1746 )
• " Thesaurus plantarum americanarum " ( 2 volumes, 1747 ).