Johannes Scherbius (1 June 1769,

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– 8 November 1813) was a German physician and botanist. In 1790 he obtained his doctorate of medicine at

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, later working as a physician in his hometown of Frankfurt. In Frankfurt, he was associated with the Senckenberg Institute. With

Philipp Gottfried Gaertner Philipp Gottfried Gaertner (29 October 1754, Hanau – 27 December 1825, Hanau) was a German botanist.http://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/Imagenes/F(46)Fl_Iber4/Fl_iber4_628.pdf An apothecary from Hanau, Gaertner spent several years in Strasbourg a ...

and

Bernhard Meyer Bernhard Meyer (24 August 1767 – 1 January 1836) was a German physician and naturalist. Meyer was the joint author, with Philipp Gottfried Gaertner (1754–1825) and Johannes Scherbius Johannes Scherbius (1 June 1769, Frankfurt am ...

, he was co-author of "''Oekonomisch-technische Flora der Wetterau''" (Economic-technical flora of

Wetterau The Wetterau is a fertile undulating tract, watered by the Wetter, a tributary of the Nidda River, in the western German state of Hesse, between the hilly province Oberhessen and the north-western Taunus mountains. Bettina von Arnim writes of ...

), a three-volume work that was a source of scientific names for numerous plants.

Published works

* "Dissertatio inauguralis medica de Lysimachiae purpureae sive Lythri salicariae Linn. virtute medicinali non dubia", Jenae, Ex Officina Fiedleriana (1790). * "Commentationis de sanguinis missione in febribus intermittentibus", (1790). * ''Oekonomisch-technische Flora der Wetterau'', (1799-1802, 3 vols. [vol. 1 (VI-VII.1799); vol. 2 (V-VII.1800); vol. 3 (1) (I-VI.1801); vol. 3 (2) (1802); (with Philipp Gottfried Gaertner and Bernhard Meyer). * ''Pharmakopoe und Arznei-Taxe für das bei der hiesigen Armen-Anstalt angestellte medicinische Personale'', (1809).WorldCat Identities
Most widely held works by Johannes Scherbius

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Scherbius, Johannes 1769 births 1813 deaths Physicians from Frankfurt University of Jena alumni 19th-century German botanists Scientists from Frankfurt 18th-century German botanists