Johann Ernst Hebenstreit

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Johann Ernst Hebenstreit (January 15, 1703 – December 5, 1757) was a German physician and naturalist born in Neustadt an der Orla.

He was a student at the University of Leipzig, where in 1728 he earned his philosophy degree, and one year later obtaining his medical doctorate. In 1731 he became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.

In 1731 he was appointed by Augustus II to head an expedition to Africa to collect natural history specimens and to procure wild animals for the royal menagerie. After Augustus' death in 1733, the mission was discontinued, with Hebenstreit returning to Leipzig as a professor of medicine and anatomy. During turmoil surrounding the May Uprising in Dresden (1849), specimens collected from the African expedition were lost.

Among Hebenstreits' numerous written works were an influential 1751 study of forensic medicine called Anthropologia Forensis sistens medici circa rempublicam, and an illustrated catalogue involving the collection of minerals, fossils, and gems assembled by Leipzig banker Johann Christoph Richter (1689–1751) called Museum Richterianum continens fossilia animalia, vegetabilia marina.

Carl Linnaeus named the plant genus Hebenstreitia in honor of Hebenstreit.

References

Parts of this article are based on a translation of an article from the German Wikipedia.
The Mineralogical Record- Library (biography)

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 67219888 LCCN: n85814563 ISNI: 0000 0000 8147 4400 GND: 116555424

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Name	Hebenstreit, Johann Ernst
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Short description	German scientist
Date of birth	January 15, 1703
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Date of death	December 5, 1757
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