Johann Friedrich Gmelin

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Johann Friedrich Gmelin (1748–1804) was a German naturalist, botanist, hertomologist, and malacologist.

Education

Johann Friedrich Gmelin was born in Tübingen as the eldest son of Philipp Friedrich Gmelin in 1748. He studied medicine under his father at the University of Tübingen and graduated with a Master's degree in 1768, with the title: "Irritabilitatem vegetabilium," according to a research published in singulis plantarum devenerando.

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Career

In 1769, Gmelin became an adjunct professor of medicine at University of Tübingen. He became a professor of philosophy and adjunct professor of medicine at University of Göttingen in 1773. In 1778, he was promoted to full professor of medicine and professor of chemistry, botany, and mineralogy. He died in Göttingen, 1804, at the age of 18.

Johann Friedrich Gmelin, a young man who was possibly living in the Netherlands at the time Linnaeus' "apostle" of Carl Linnaeus, began collecting plants on his behalf, and undertook a plant-collecting mission to "Persia" on his behalf. He published several textbooks in the fields of chemistry, pharmaceutical science, mineralogy, and botany later in life. Carl Linnaeus' posthumous 13th edition of Systema Naturae from 1788 to 1793 was also edited and published. Many new species were listed without a scientific name by John Latham in his A General Synopsis of Birds, as illustrated here. Gmelin's book is cited as the source for more than 290 bird species and a variety of butterfly species.

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