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Nathanael Matthaeus von Wolf
German astronomer and botanist

Nathanael Matthaeus von Wolf

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German astronomer and botanist
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Wolf
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Place of birth
Chojnice
Place of death
Gdańsk
Age
60 years
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Nathanael Matthaeus von Wolf, Nathanael Matthäus von Wolf, Polish: Nataniel Mateusz Wolf (28 January 1724 in Konitz– 15 December 1784 in Danzig) was a German botanist, physician, and astronomer.
Wolf studied medicine at the University of Erfurt and received his degree of M.D. in 1748. He became the personal physician of Teodor Kazimierz Czartoryski, the Prince-bishop of Poznań, until the bishop's death in 1768. The next year he opened a private office at Tczew and then practised at Danzig (now Gdańsk) from 1772. He went on to spend most of his adult life in Danzig. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1777.
As an astronomer, Wolf also taught the Corps of Cadets in Warsaw. He was a member of the Danzig Research Society (Naturforschende Gesellschaft Danzig) and left his scientific collections to them. He greatly supported the building of a planetarium.
On 10 May 1785, a few months after Wolf's death, the Danzig physician Phillipp Adolph Lampe presented a memorial at the Danzig Research Society.

Works

    • Genera Plantarum, Vocabulis characteristicis definita S.l. 1776
    • Genera et Species Plantarum vocabulis characteristicis definita. Marienwerder, Typis Joan. Jac. Kanteri, 1781
    • Concordantia Botanica. Dantisci, Muller, 1780

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