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Ernst Heinrich Friedrich Meyer (1791 – 1858) was a German botanist and historian of botany. Born in Hanover, he lectured in Göttingen and was a professor of botany at Königsberg from 1826. His botanical specialty was the Juncaceae, or family of rushes. His major work was the four-volume Geschichte der Botanik (“History of Botany,” 1854–57).[1] His history covered ancient authorities such as Aristotle and Theophrastus, explored the beginnings of modern botany in the context of 15th- and 16th-century intellectual practice, and offered a wealth of biographical data on early modern botanists.[2] Julius von Sachs pronounced him “no great botanist” but admitted that he “possessed a clever and cultivated intellect.”[3]
The fourth volume of Geschichte der Botanik is available online.
References
- ^ Department of Systematic Botany, Albrecht von Haller Institute of Plant Sciences, Georg August University Göttingen, Index Collectorum.
- ^ Julius Sachs, History of Botany (1530–1860), translated by Henry E.F. Garnsey, revised by Isaac Bayley Balfour (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1890), pp. 13, 17, 20–32, 376–377.
- ^ Julius Sachs, History of Botany (1530–1860) (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1890), p. 161.
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