Paul Amman
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Paul Amman (31 August 1634 – 4 February 1691), German physician and botanist.
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Biography
Amman was born at Breslau in 1634. In 1662 he received the degree of doctor of physic from the university of Leipzig, and in 1664 was admitted a member of the society Naturae Curiosorum, under the name of Dryander. Shortly afterwards he was chosen extraordinary professor of medicine in the above-mentioned university; and in 1674 he was promoted to the botanical chair, which he again in 1682 exchanged for the physiological. He died at Leipzig in 1691. He seems to have been a man of critical mind and extensive learning.[1]
Works
His principal works were:[1]
- Medicina Critica (1670);
- Paraenesis ad Docentes occupata circa Institutionum Medicarum Emendationem (1673);
- Irenicum Numae Pompilii cum Hippocrate (1689);
- Supellex Botanica (1675);
- Character Naturalis Plantarum (1676).
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Chisholm 1911, p. 859.
- Attribution
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