Bernhardt Jungmann

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Bernhardt Jungmann (* 1671 in Ronneburg , Hessen ; † 1747 in Mexico ) was a German botanist and chemist .

Life

Jungmann studied at the University of Leipzig and in 1702 accepted an appointment as professor for botany and chemistry at the University of Göttingen . In 1709 he followed a call as professor at the University of Giessen .

In 1712 he became a professor at the University of Leiden and shortly afterwards was commissioned by the Dutch government to undertake a research trip to America . In the following years he successively visited Canada , New England , Mexico , Cuba and from 1715 to 1724 Puerto Rico . He then lived for a few years on the Antilles island of Saint-Eustache and Saint Lucia before returning to Leiden in 1727.

In the following years he published several specialist books about his research trips, but also essays on antiques in Mexico, which appeared in Braunschweig in 1837 in a reprint of the Blätter für literary entertainment .

In 1744 he traveled again to Mexico, where he was persecuted and imprisoned for his belief . A few days before his planned return to Europe , he died of yellow fever in Mexico .

Publications

  • Fasciculus plantarum rariarum et exoticarum (Leiden, 1728)
  • Naturalis dispositio echinodermatum (1731)
  • Historia piscium naturalis (1732)
  • Historia adium (1733)
  • Tantamen methodi astrocologicae, sive dispositio naturalis cochlidum et concharum (2 volumes, 1741)
  • Methodus plantarum genuina (1743)
  • Enumeratio plantarum circa Mexico sponte provenientium (Mexico, 1746)
  • Thesaurus plantarum americanarum (2 volumes, 1747).

literature

personal data
SURNAME Jungmann, Bernhardt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist and chemist
DATE OF BIRTH 1671
PLACE OF BIRTH Ronneburg , Hesse
DATE OF DEATH 1747
Place of death Mexico