Nathanael Matthaeus von Wolf

Nathanael Matthaeus von Wolf.

Nathanael Matthaeus von Wolf, Nathanael Matthäus von Wolf, Polish: Nataniel Mateusz Wolf (28 January 1724 in Konitz [1] – 15 December 1784 in Danzig) was a German[2] botanist, physician, and astronomer.

Wolf studied medicine at the University of Erfurt and received his degree of M.D. in 1748. He became the personal physician of Teodor Kazimierz Czartoryski, the Prince-bishop of Poznań, until the bishop's death in 1768. The next year he opened a private office at Tczew and then practised at Danzig (now Gdańsk) from 1772. He went on to spend most of his adult life in Danzig. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1777.

As an astronomer, Wolf also taught the Corps of Cadets in Warsaw. He was a member of the Danzig Research Society (Naturforschende Gesellschaft Danzig) and left his scientific collections to them. He greatly supported the building of a planetarium.

On 10 May 1785, a few months after Wolf's death, the Danzig physician Phillipp Adolph Lampe presented a memorial at the Danzig Research Society.

Notes

  1. ↑ Nathanael Matthaeus Wolf, Member of Naturforschende Gesellschaft Danzig from Conitz, Westpreussen
  2. ↑ Stafleu, F.A.; Cowan, R.S. (1976–1988), "Wolf, Nathaniel Matthaeus von", Taxonomic literature: A selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types. Second Edition, Utrecht: Bohn, Scheltema and Holkema; Available online through Smithsonian Institution Libraries
  3. ↑ IPNI.  Wolf.

Works

    • Genera Plantarum, Vocabulis characteristicis definita S.l. 1776
    • Genera et Species Plantarum vocabulis characteristicis definita. Marienwerder, Typis Joan. Jac. Kanteri, 1781
    • Concordantia Botanica. Dantisci, Muller, 1780

References

  • J.C. Poggendorff (1863). Biographisch-Literarisches Handwörterbuch zur geschichte der exacten wissenschaften. Verlag von Johann Ambrosius Barth. (Leipzig).
  • Edmund Cieślak "Historia Gdańska", t. III, /1:1655-1793, Gdańsk 1993
  • Kazimierz Kubik & Lech Mokrzecki "Trzy wieki nauki gdańskiej", Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, Gdańsk 1976 (s. 125-126) ISBN 83-215-3251-9
  • "Mieszczaństwo gdańskie", Gdańskie Towarzystwo Naukowe, Gdańsk 1997 ISBN 83-87359-16-5


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