Johann Hieronymus Kniphof (24 February 1704 in

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– 23 January 1763) was a German physician and botanist. Herbarium vivum03

He studied medicine at the Universities of

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and

, becoming a professor of medicine at the latter institution in 1737. In 1745 he succeeded Andreas Elias Büchner (1701–1769) as director of the

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at Erfurt, two years later being named dean to the faculty of medicine. In 1761 he was chosen as university

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Johann Hieronymus Kniphof, bedeutender Botaniker, Mediziner und Universitätsrektor aus Erfurt At Erfurt, he assembled a large and impressive herbarium, about which in 1733, he first published a work with the title of "Botanica in originali" (later releases known as "Botanica in Originali, seu Herbarium Vivum"). Considered to be Kniphof's magnum opus, it would eventually be published in several editions. It was renowned for employing a preparation/printing technique known as " nature printing", which at the time was a little understood process that Kniphof had mastered in order to imprint details of various botanical specimens. The botanical genus ''

Kniphofia ''Kniphofia'' is a genus of perennial flowering plants in the family Asphodelaceae, first described as a genus in 1794. Species are native to Africa. Common names include tritoma, red hot poker, torch lily and poker plant. Description Herbaceou ...

'' (family

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) was named in his honor by botanist

Conrad Moench Conrad Moench (sometimes written Konrad Mönch; 15 August 1744 – 6 January 1805) was a German botanist, professor of botany at Marburg University from 1786 until his death. He wrote 'Methodus Plantas horti botanici et agri Marburgensis' in 1 ...

(1745–1805).

References

Medical reference. Hieronymus JH. De luxationibus et subluxationibus. Thesis. Jena, Dec 21, 1746. {{DEFAULTSORT:Kniphof, Johann Hieronymus 1704 births 1763 deaths University of Erfurt faculty Scientists from Erfurt 18th-century German botanists

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