Ferdinand Jakob Baier

Ferdinand Jakob Baier, 1771. (copper engraving / etching by Georg Lichtensteger, 1700–1781)

Ferdinand Jakob Baier (born February 13, 1707 in Altdorf near Nuremberg , † October 23, 1788 in Ansbach ) was a German medic.

Life

Baier, son of the doctor Johann Jakob Baier , completed his medical studies in Weimar , Altdorf near Nuremberg and Würzburg . In Nuremberg he received his doctorate in 1730 at the local Collegium Medicum . Baier worked in Nuremberg from 1730 to 1773 , from 1750 as dean of the college. On September 13, 1732 he became a member ( matriculation number 437 ) of the Leopoldina and in 1770, as successor to Andreas Elias Büchner, he became the seventh president of the learned society. His name was Academy Eugenianus II. , His father, who had held the post of Academy President 1730-1735, had Eugenianus I called. After Baier's death in 1788, Heinrich Friedrich Delius became president.

Fonts

• Ioannis Iacobi Baieri monumenta rerum petrificatarum praecipua oryctographiae noricae supplementi loco iungenda interprete filio Ferdinando Iacobo Baiero. Nuremberg 1757

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Baier, Ferdinand Jakob . In: Dietrich von Engelhardt (ed.): Biographical encyclopedia of German-speaking doctors. Volume 1, Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11462-1 , p. 30.
2. ^ ^{A b} Marion Mücke, Thomas Schnalke: Briefnetz Leopoldina: The correspondence of the German Academy of Natural Scientists around 1750. Walter de Gruyter, 2009, ISBN 3-11-020105-4 , pp. 609f.
3. ^ Member entry by Ferdinand Jacob von Baier at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 25, 2013.