Johann Gottfried Zinn

Johann Gottfried Zinn ( born December 4, 1727 Schwabach, † April 6, 1759 in Göttingen) was an eminent physician and botanist and member of the Berlin Academy. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " tin ".

Life and work

Johann Gottfried Zinn in 1753 Director of the Botanical Garden of the University of Göttingen and there in 1755 and professor in the Faculty of Medicine.

His main work was the first complete and detailed description of the anatomy of the human eye in the entire world literature.

He named in honor of Botany taxonomist Carl Linnaeus, a native of Mexico genus of the daisy family (Asteraceae, formerly Compositae) as " Zinnia ". This late summer flower is commonly known under the name Zinnia.

In medicine, zonula ciliaris and arterial circle of Zinn sclerae were named after him.

Writings

• Catalogus plantarum horti academici et agri gottingensis .... 1757th