Johann Daniel Geier
Johann Daniel Geier or Johann Daniel Geyer , Latinized Johannes Danielus Geierus (born November 10, 1660 in Regensburg ; † August 3, 1735 in Dresden ) was a German doctor and scientist with a special interest in paleontology .
Life
Johann Daniel Geier , who holds a doctorate in physics , had his first professional position in Alzey in the Palatinate . He later became a garrison doctor in Mannheim , then field doctor and then personal doctor to the Saxon Elector and Polish King Friedrich August I in Dresden . As early as 1685 he became a member of the medical section of what was then known as the Sacri Romani Imperii Academia Caesareo-Leopoldina Naturae Curiosorum , today's German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina .
Medical textbooks from Geier's possession reached the Gräflich Solms-Laubach library in Laubach via unknown routes, where they are now kept.
Fonts
- Apollini sacer, continens trigam medicam ex regno animali, minerali et vegetabili. Frankfurt 1677.
- [Schedisma] De montibus conchiferis ac glossopetris Alzeiensibus. Frankfurt / Leipzig 1687 (digitized) .
literature
- Wilhelm von Gümbel : Geier, Johann Daniel . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1878, p. 503 f (with small inaccuracies).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eduard Maria Oettinger: Moniteur des Dates, contenant un million de renseignements biographiques généalogiques et historiques… Volume 2 (D - Holmes). Oettinger, Dresden 1866, p. 120. (online)
- ^ Member entry of Johann Daniel Geyer at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on April 5, 2015.
- ↑ http://fabian.sub.uni-goettingen.de/?Graeflich_Solms-Laubachsche_Bibliothek Paragraph 2.27
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Geier, Johann Daniel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Geyer, Johann Daniel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German doctor and scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 10, 1660 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | regensburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 3, 1735 |
| Place of death | Dresden |