Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin

Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin

1 quotes

Chemist, physician and botanist from the Netherlands

About Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin

Nikolaus Joseph Freiherr von Jacquin was a scientist who studied medicine, chemistry and botany. He travelled to the West Indies as part of an Austrian expedition and collected a large number of botanical specimens and described many species. He served as the first professor of chemistry in the mining academy at Schemnitz in Austria and later worked at the University of Vienna. He was the father of the botanist Joseph Franz von Jacquin.

Notable works:

Selectarum stirpium Americanarum historia: in qua ad Linnæanum systema determinatæ descriptæque sistuntur plantæ illæ : quas in insulis Martinica, Jamaica, Domingo, alliisque, et in vicinæ continentis parte, observavit rariores : adjectis iconibus in solo natali delineatis

All Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin Quotes

No quotes found for this author.