Johann Jacob Roemer (8 January 1763,
Zurich – 15 January 1819) was a
physician
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and professor of
botany
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in
Zurich,
Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
. He was also an
entomologist
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.
With
Austria
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n
botanist
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Joseph August Schultes, he published the 16th edition of
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the ...
' ''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
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. The botanical genus ''
Roemeria'' from the family
Papaveraceae is named after him.
Works
*''Magazin für die Botanik'', vols. 1–4; 1787–1791, with publicist
Paul Usteri (1768-1831). Afterwards Roemer continued this series as ''Neues Magazin für die Botanik''.
biography
@ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
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It was published by the Historical Commission of the Bavarian Aca ...
*''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), La ...
), 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 Urich may refer to
* Urich, Missouri, a town in the United States
* Urich (surname)
* Urich's tyrannulet, a bird endemic to Venezuela
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In parts between 1806 and 1810.
*''Systema vegetabilium'' (ed. 16) 7 vols. - 1817-1830
References
1763 births
1819 deaths
19th-century Swiss botanists
Swiss entomologists
19th-century Swiss physicians
18th-century Swiss physicians
Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Physicians from Zürich
18th-century Swiss botanists
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