Joseph Liboschitz, or Osip Jakovlevič Libošic; Осип Яковлевич Либошиц (1783–1824) was a Russian physician and naturalist from

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. From 1798 he was a student at the

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, obtaining his medical doctorate in 1806 at the

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. Subsequently, he practiced medicine in his hometown of Vilnius, later relocating to

St. Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

, where he served as a

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(from 1812) and personal physician to

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(from 1822). In St. Petersburg, he founded a children's hospital. Liboschitz was the first to provide a description of ''Rehmannia chinensis'' (synonymous with ''

Rehmannia glutinosa ''Rehmannia glutinosa'' is one of the 50 fundamental herbs used in traditional Chinese medicine, where it has the name ''shēng dì huáng'' (). It is often sold as ''gān dì huáng'' (), ''gān'' meaning "dried". Chemical constituents A number ...

''), an important herb in

traditional Chinese medicine Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is an alternative medical practice drawn from traditional medicine in China. It has been described as "fraught with pseudoscience", with the majority of its treatments having no logical mechanism of action ...

Selected writings

* ''Flore des environs de St.-Pétersbourg et de Moscou'', 1811 – Flora of the environs of St. Petersburg and

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. * ''Enumeratio fungorum quos in nonnullis provinciis Imperii Ruthenici'', 1817. * ''Naturgeschichte der Amphibien'', 1817 (with

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and Michael Oppel) – Natural history of

amphibians Amphibians are four-limbed and ectothermic vertebrates of the class Amphibia. All living amphibians belong to the group Lissamphibia. They inhabit a wide variety of habitats, with most species living within terrestrial, fossorial, arbore ...

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