Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber     (1739 - 1810)




Image of Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber from J. Dörfler (1906 - 1907) Botaniker Porträts
Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber

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 Biography
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Selected publications
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Biography

1758     studies medicine, natural science and theology at Halle, travelling to Uppsala for intensive training in botany with Linnaeus.

1761     earns MD, appointed doctor at the pedagogium in Bützow (Mecklenburg)

1764     secretary for the economic association of Leipzig (board of commerce?)

1770     appointed third-level professor of medicine at the university of Erlangen

1773     appointed director of the botanical gardens and of the museum of natural history

1791     promoted to second-level professor of medicine

1793     promoted to first-level professor of medicine
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Sources

 Heinrich Dörfelt & Heike Heklau (1998) Die Geschichte der Mykologie
      (Die Geschichte der Mykologie)


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Selected Publications

Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber (1771) Spicilegium florae lipsicae
An important pre-Friesian work, which declared 80 species of fungi.

Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber (1789 - 1791) Caroli a Linné Genera plantarum editio octavio (Karl Linnaeus' The Genera of Plants (deluxe edition))
I assume that Schreber is just the editor of this


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Genera

Physcia (J. C. D. von Schreber) A. Michaux

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