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Authorised form of nameHeucher; Johann Heinrich (1677 - 1747)
Dates1677 - 1747
NationalityAustrian
Place of birthVienna, Austria
Date of birth1677
Place of deathDresden, Germany
Date of death23 February 1747
OccupationAuthor; Physician
Research fieldAnatomy
Botany
ActivityEducation:
Wittenberg. MPhil (1696); MD. Leipzig; Jena; Altdorf
Career:
Taught philosophy privately at Wittenberg; Professor of Medicine, Wittenberg (1709-1713); Personal Physician and Counsellor to August II, King of Poland; Superintendent of the King's library and natural history and art collections; founded botanical gardens at Wittenberg
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election06/11/1729
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; Hirsch
Notes:
Proposed by George Lewis Teissier; Sir Hans Sloane; a Secretary
CodeNA7392
Archives associated with this Fellow
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IM/002071Heucher, Johann Heinrichnd
EL/H4/32Extract of a letter, from John Henry de Heucher to Hans Sloane, dated at Warsaw7 May 1732
EL/H4/2Letter, from John Henry de Heucher to Hans Sloane, dated at Dresden29 March 1730
EL/H4/23Translated extract of a letter, from John Henry de Heucher to Dr Lawson, dated at Dresden1740
RBO/14/119'An account of a peculiar Entrochus' in a letter to Sir Hans Sloane from Dr Joannes Henry Heucher, Physician to the King of Poland, Professor of Anatomy and Botany at Wittemberg1730
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