Johann Jacob Roemer

Johann Jacob Roemer (1763–1819) was a physician and professor of botany in Zurich, Switzerland. He was also an entomologist.

With Austrian botanist Joseph August Schultes, he published the 16th edition of Carolus Linnaeus' Systema Vegetabilium.

Roemer's Genera insectorum is a most attractive Swiss publication on entomology. The splendid hand-coloured plates were drawn and engraved by the Swiss artist J.R. Schellenberg, an entomologist himself and therefore familiar with structural details.

In 1793, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Works

Magazin Fur die Botanik vols. 1-4; 1787-1791 In 1790, Roemer continued this series as Neues Magazin Fur die Botanik
Genera insectorum Linnaei et Fabricii iconibus illustrata. Vitoduri Helvetorum (Winterthur), apud Henric. Steiner, 1789
Flora Europaea...Norimbergae [Nürnberg] 14 fasc. 1797-1811
Collecteana ad Omnem rem Botanicam Spectantia Partim e Propriis, Partim ex Amicorum Schedis Manuscriptis Concinnavit et Edidit J. J. Roemer, M.D. Turici [Zurich] In parts between 1806 and 1810
Systema vegetabilium (ed. 16) 7 vols. - 1817-1830

The standard author abbreviation Roem. is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.^[1]

References

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Name	Roemer, Johann Jacob
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Date of birth	1763
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Date of death	1819
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