Lorenz Anton Dercum
Lorenz Anton Dercum (* in the 17th century in Würzburg ; † 1752 ) was a German medic and botanist .
Life
Lorenz Anton Dercum studied medicine and received his doctorate from the University of Würzburg in March 1715 with his father Damian Adolph Dercum .
Dercum later worked in Würzburg as a doctor at the Juliusspital , became professor of botany on January 5, 1721, was dean of the faculty and from 1721 to 1752 chairman of the botanical garden of the University of Würzburg.
On April 30, 1731, he received the nickname Agathinus I. a member ( 423 Matriculation no. Of) Leopoldina selected.
His successor was the doctor and botanist Elias Adam Papius .
Fonts
- Theses Medicae Inaugurales De Vulneribus Capitis, Contusionibus, Cranij Fracturis & Fissuris. Hertz, Würzburg 1715 (digitized version)
literature
- Max Buchner : From the past of the University of Würzburg. Springer-Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg 1932, pp. 487-488. (Reprint: 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-98763-2 )
- U. Buschbom: The development of the Würzburg Botanical Garden. In: B. Baumgart: Four hundred years of the University of Würzburg. A commemorative publication. Neustadt an der Aisch 1982, pp. 567-600.
Web links
- Member Post by Lorenz Anton Dercum at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- Works by and about Lorenz Anton Dercum in the German Digital Library
- Dercum, Lorenz Anton on CERL Thesaurus
Individual evidence
- ^ Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann , Jena 1860, p. 212 (archive.org)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dercum, Lorenz Anton |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Agathinus I. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physician and botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wurzburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1752 |