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Authorised form of nameRivinus; August Quirinus (1652 - 1723)
Other forms of nameAugustus Quirinus
Other forms of surnameBachmann
Dates1652 - 1723
NationalityGerman
Place of birthLeipzig, Germany
Date of birth09 December 1652
Place of deathLeipzig, Germany
Date of death30 December 1723
OccupationPhysician
Research fieldBotany
ActivityEducation:
Leipzig; MB (1671); Helmstedt; MD (1676)
Career:
Practised in Leipzig; Lecturer in Medicine, Leipzig (1677); Professor of Physiology and Botany, Leipzig (1691), Professor of Pathology (1701), Professor of Therapeutics and Dean of Medicine (1719); invented a system of plant classification and binomial nomenclature; died of pleurisy
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election30/11/1703
RelationshipsSon of Andreas Bachmann, or Rivinus, Professor of Poetry and Physiology at Leipzig; married four times
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB; Hirsch
Authority:
Altname from DSB.
CodeNA494
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