Johann Georg Christian Lehmann (25 February 1792 – 12 February 1860) was a German botanist. Born at

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, near

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, Lehmann studied medicine in

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and

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, obtained a doctorate in medicine in 1813 and a doctorate in

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from the University of

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in 1814. He spent the rest of his life as professor of physics and natural sciences, and head librarian, at the '' Gymnasium Academicum'' in

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. A prolific

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ist of apparently quarrelsome character, he was a member of 26 learned societies and the founder of the Hamburg Botanical Garden (, now the

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). Lehmann died at Hamburg in 1860. Some of Lehmann's later illustrations were executed by the German

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Johann Wilhelm Meigen Johann Wilhelm Meigen (3 May 1764 – 11 July 1845) was a German entomologist famous for his pioneering work on Diptera. Life Early years Meigen was born in Solingen, the fifth of eight children of Johann Clemens Meigen and Sibylla Margaretha ...

Publications

*''Generis Nicotiniarum Historia'' Hamburg 1818 *''Plantae e Familiae Asperifoliarum Nuciferae'' 1818 *''Monographia Generis Primularum'' Lipsiae 1819 *''Monographia Generis Potentillarum'' 1820 Supplement 1836 *''Semina in Horto Botanico Hamburgensi'' 1822-1840 *''Icones et Descriptiones Novarum et Minus Cognitarum Stirpium'' in 5 parts of 10 plates each 1: 1821 2: 1822 3: 1823 4: 1823 5: 1824 *''Novarum et Minus Cognitarum Stirpium Pugillus I-X Addita Enumeratione Plantarum Omnium in his Pugillus Descriptarum''. Hamburgi 1828-1857 *''Delectus Seminum quae in Horto Hamburgensium Botanico e Collectioni Anni''1830-1840; 1849–1852 *''Plantae Preissianae'' Hamburg 1844-1847 *''Index Seminum in Horto Botanico Hamburgensi A. 1851 Collectorum'' Hamburg 1851-1855 *''Revisionem Potentillarum'' 1856 *''Observationes zoologicae praesertim in faunam hamburgensem. Pugillus primus. Indicem scholarum publice privatimque in Hamburgensium Gymnasio Academico'' 1822

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lehmann, Johann Georg Christian 1792 births 1860 deaths People from Pinneberg (district) People from the Duchy of Holstein Botanists with author abbreviations 19th-century German botanists German entomologists University of Jena alumni Corresponding members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences