Johann Jacob Roemer (8 January 1763, Zurich – 15 January 1819) was a

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and professor of

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in Zurich, Switzerland. He was also an entomologist. With

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n botanist

Joseph August Schultes Josef (Joseph) August Schultes (15 April 1773 in Vienna – 21 April 1831 in Landshut) was an Austrian botanist and professor from Vienna. Together with Johann Jacob Roemer (1763–1819), he published the 16th edition of Linnaeus' ''Systema V ...

, he published the 16th edition of

Carl Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his Nobility#Ennoblement, ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalise ...

' ''Systema Vegetabilium''. Roemer's ''Genera insectorum'' is a most attractive Swiss publication on entomology. The splendid hand-coloured plates were drawn and engraved by the Swiss artist J.R. Schellenberg, an entomologist himself and therefore familiar with structural details. In 1793, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The botanical genus ''

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'' from the family

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is named after him.

Works

*''Magazin für die Botanik'', vols. 1–4; 1787–1791, with publicist

Paul Usteri Paul Usteri (14 February 1768, Zurich – 9 April 1831, Zurich) was a Swiss physician, botanist, publicist and politician. In 1788 he received his medical doctorate from the University of Göttingen, afterwards working as an instructor at the Zu ...

(1768-1831). Afterwards Roemer continued this series as ''Neues Magazin für die Botanik''.biography
@ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie *''Genera insectorum Linnaei et Fabricii iconibus illustrata''. Vitoduri Helvetorum (

Winterthur , neighboring_municipalities = Brütten, Dinhard, Elsau, Hettlingen, Illnau-Effretikon, Kyburg, Lindau, Neftenbach, Oberembrach, Pfungen, Rickenbach, Schlatt, Seuzach, Wiesendangen, Zell , twintowns = Hall in Tirol (Austria ...

), apud Henric. Steiner, 1789 *''Flora Europaea...'' Norimbergae ürnberg14 fasc. 1797-1811 *''Collecteana ad Omnem rem Botanicam Spectantia Partim e Propriis, Partim ex Amicorum Schedis Manuscriptis Concinnavit et Edidit J. J. Roemer, M.D.'' Turici urich In parts between 1806 and 1810. *''Systema vegetabilium'' (ed. 16) 7 vols. - 1817-1830

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