Bernhard Meyer
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Dr Bernhard Meyer was a German
physician
and naturalist
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Meyer was the joint author, with Philipp Gottfried Gaertner (1754-1825) and Johannes Scherbius (1769-1813) of Oekonomisch-technische Flora der Wetterau (1799), which was the source of the scientific name of many plants. He was also the joint author, with Johann Wolf, of Naturgeschichte der Vögel Deutschlands (1805) and Taschenbuch der deutschen Vögelkunde (1810-22).
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
physician
Physician
A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...
and naturalist
Natural history
Natural history is the scientific research of plants or animals, leaning more towards observational rather than experimental methods of study, and encompasses more research published in magazines than in academic journals. Grouped among the natural sciences, natural history is the systematic study...
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Meyer was the joint author, with Philipp Gottfried Gaertner (1754-1825) and Johannes Scherbius (1769-1813) of Oekonomisch-technische Flora der Wetterau (1799), which was the source of the scientific name of many plants. He was also the joint author, with Johann Wolf, of Naturgeschichte der Vögel Deutschlands (1805) and Taschenbuch der deutschen Vögelkunde (1810-22).