Johann Jacob Roemer

Johann Jacob Roman ( born January 8, 1763 in Zurich, Switzerland, † January 15, 1819 ibid, also written Roemer ) was a Swiss physician, entomologist and botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Roem. ".

Life

Romans was a professor of botany and director of the Old Botanical Garden « zur Katz » the University of Zurich. The plant genus Roemeria Medik. from the family of the poppy family ( Papaveraceae ) has been named after him.

From 1784, he studied medicine and biology at the University of Göttingen and received his doctorate in 1786 with a dissertation on a gynecological issue for 1788 med Dr Roman was a member of the Swiss scientific society and then practiced as a physician in Zurich, but which failed to success. This was followed by a position as a doctor at the Zurich infirmary. During the revolutionary years 1799-1803 Romans retired from the faculty of this institution and took over again in 1804, a professor, as this facility Cantonal Institute was. There he practiced until his death.

With the Austrian botanist Josef August Schultes, he published the 16th edition of Systema Vegetabilium of Carl Linnaeus. Adenium obesum plant The ssp. obesum was indeed already described and named by Pehr Forsskål, but only Romans and Schultes was able to classify these into todays valid botanical systematics.

1793 Roman was elected Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 1808 corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.

Together with Paul Usteri Romans gave out the magazine for botany. 1797 Romans director of the Botanical Garden in Zurich and finally stood in front of the Bureau of the Commission of the Botanical Society for Natural Sciences Zurich in Zurich.

Works

  • Magazine for botany volumes 1-4; From 1787 to 1791. Continued as New magazine for botany.
  • Genera insectorum linnaei Fabricius et iconibus illustrata. Vitoduri Helvetorum (Winterthur), apud Henric. Steiner, 1789 urn: nbn: de: gbv :8:2 - 757 358
  • Flora Europaea inchoata, Norimbergae [ Nuremberg ], 14 fasc. From 1797 to 1811.
  • Encyclopaedia for gardeners and lovers of gardening, 1797
  • Collecteana ad rem Omnem Botanicam Spectantia partim e Propriis, partim ex Amicorum Schedis Manuscriptis Concinnavit et Edidit JJ Roemer, MD Turici [ Zurich ] ( 1806-1810 ).
  • Attempt to complete as possible dictionary of botanical terminology. In 1816.
  • Systema vegetabilium (ed. 16), 7 vols. - 1817-1830 ( Mantissa in volume secundum systematis vegetabilium Caroli a Linné, together with Joseph August Schultes ).
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