Johann David Schoepff

Johann David Schoepf (* March 8, 1752 in Bayreuth, † September 10, 1800 ) was a German surgeon, botanist, zoologist and naturalist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " scooping ".

Life

Schoepf was born on March 8, 1752 in Bayreuth. After his studies he worked first as a physician to the Margrave Alexander and then traveled in 1777 as chief surgeon of the Hessian troops, who for King George III. of Britain fought for America. The regimental surgeon Dr. Johann David Schopf was still driven after his release from the war by scientific curiosity, as he had hardly found time during the war, to explore America.

He decided to explore the American continent on your own and crossed the country for two years. In war, always stationed at Rhode Iceland, he moved to Florida and even to the Bahamas. His impressions and findings he recorded in his diary, which he published made ​​upon his return to Europe in 1784 in a two-volume work called traveling through some of the central and southern United North American States East Florida and the Bahama Islands, in the years 1783 and 1784.

He worked for a time at United Medical Colleges of Ansbach and Bayreuth, and died on September 10, 1800 in his home town of Bayreuth. An English translation of his book published in 1911.

Works

• Materia Medica Americana Potissimum regni veg. - Repr Erlangae, 1787 - Cincinnati, Ohio. Lloyd Library, 1903 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf.