Johann Jakob Dillenius     (1684 - 1747)


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Biography
Selected publications
Genera

Biography

1684     born in Darmstadt, Germany

1721     moves to England

1728     becomes first professor of Botany at Oxford University

Selected Publications

Johann Jakob Dillenius (1718) Catalogus Plantarum circa Gissam sponte nascentium (Catalogue of Plants Occuring Spontaneously Around Giessen)
Treats 980 species of phanerogams, 200 "mosses", and 160 fungi. I've also seen the date given as 1719

Johann Jakob Dillenius (1741) Historia muscorum (Natural History of Mosses)
re-issued in part in 1763, 1768, and 1811


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Genera

Boletus Dillenius: Fries
Bovista Dillenius: Persoon
Morchella Dillenius: Fries
Peziza Dillenius: Fries
Tremella Dillenius: Fries

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