Paul Amman

Paul Amman (31 August 1634 – 4 February 1691) was a physician and botanist from what was then Bohemia.

Biography

Amman was born at Breslau, Silesia, Kingdom of Bohemia, Holy Roman Empire 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. William Houstoun named the species Ammannia in his honor, a name that was used by Linnaeus in his Critica Botanica.

Works

His principal works were:

• 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).

Title page of a 1685 publication

References

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.

External links

• de:Paul Ammann