Nathanael Matthaeus von Wolf

Nathanael Matthaeus von Wolf (Polish: Nataniel Mateusz Wolf) (28 January 1724 in Chojnice ^[1] (Conitz) - 15 December 1784 in Danzig (Gdańsk) was a scientist, physician, astronomer and medicine of Corps of Cadets in Warsaw. He spent most of his adult life in Danzig (Gdańsk).

Von Wolf studied medicine at the University of Erfurt and received his M.D. in 1748. He became the personal doctor of Teodor Kazimierz Czartoryski, the Prince-bishop of Poznań, until his death in 1768. He then opened a private office in 1769 at Tczew and then at Danzig (Gdańsk) in 1772.

Von Wolf was a member of the Danzig Research Society and left his collections to them and greatly supported the building of a planetarium.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1777.

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

Notes

^ Nathanael Matthaeus Wolf, Member of Naturforschende Gesellschaft Danzig from Conitz, Westpreussen

Works

WOLF (Nathanael Matheus von) [1]
- Genera et Species Plantarum vocabulis charactericis definita. Marienwerder, Typis Joan. Jac. Kanteri, 1781
- Genera Plantarum, Vocabulis characteristica... S.l. 1776
- Concordantia Botanica. (A la fin) 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

Persondata
Name	Wolf, Nathanael Matthaeus Von
Alternative names
Short description	German astronomer
Date of birth	1724
Place of birth
Date of death	1782
Place of death