Paul Amman
Paul Amman (31 August 1634 – 4 February 1691) was a German physician and botanist.
Biography[edit]
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] William Houstoun named the species Ammannia in his honor, a name that was used by Linnaeus in his Critica Botanica.[2]
Works[edit]
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[edit]
- ^ a b Chisholm 1911, p. 859.
- ^ Carl von Linné: Critica Botanica. Leiden 1737, S. 92.
- Attribution
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Amman, Paul". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 859.
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