Joseph Gaertner
1732–91
German botanist. MD, Tübingen, 1753, but did not practise. Professor of anatomy, Tübingen, professor of botany, St Petersburg; catalogued the empress’s cabinet of curiosities, and travelled with Count Grigori Orlov in Ukraine. Most famous for De fructibus et seminibus plantarum (1788–92), in which he established terminology for fruit and seeds.
Source
DSB
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
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