Johann Jacob Roemer (8 January 1763,
Zürich
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– 15 January 1819) was a Swiss
physician
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and professor of
botany
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in Zürich, Switzerland. He was also an
entomologist
Entomology (from Ancient Greek ἔντομον (''éntomon''), meaning "insect", and -logy from λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study") is the branch of zoology that focuses on insects. Those who study entomology are known as entomologists. In ...
.
With Austrian botanist
Joseph August Schultes, he published the 16th edition of
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming o ...
' ''Systema Vegetabilium''.
Roemer's ''Genera insectorum'' is a most attractive Swiss publication on entomology. The splendid hand-coloured plates were drawn and engraved by the Swiss artist
J.R. Schellenberg, an entomologist himself and therefore familiar with structural details.
In 1793, he was elected a foreign member of the
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
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. The botanical genus ''
Roemeria
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'' from the family
Papaveraceae
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is named after him.
Works
*''Magazin für die Botanik'', vols. 1–4; 1787–1791, with publicist
Paul Usteri (1768-1831). Afterwards Roemer continued this series as ''Neues Magazin für die Botanik''.
biography
@ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
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It was published by the Historical Commission of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences between 1875 and 1912 in 56 volumes, printed in Lei ...
*''Genera insectorum Linnaei et Fabricii iconibus illustrata''. Vitoduri Helvetorum (Winterthur
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), apud Henric. Steiner, 1789
*''Flora Europaea...'' Norimbergae ürnberg14 fasc. 1797-1811
*''Collecteana ad Omnem rem Botanicam Spectantia Partim e Propriis, Partim ex Amicorum Schedis Manuscriptis Concinnavit et Edidit J. J. Roemer, M.D.'' Turici urich In parts between 1806 and 1810.
*''Systema vegetabilium'' (ed. 16) 7 vols. – 1817–1830
References
1763 births
1819 deaths
19th-century Swiss botanists
Swiss entomologists
19th-century Swiss physicians
18th-century Swiss physicians
Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Physicians from Zurich
18th-century Swiss botanists
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