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Dillenius, Johann Jakob, 1687-1747

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Personal name headingDillenius, Johann Jakob, 1687-1747
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Variant(s)Dillenius, Johann Jacob, 1687-1747
Dillenius, John James, 1687-1747
Dillenius, Joannes Jacobus, 1687-1747
Dillenius, Johannes Jacobus, 1687-1747
Dillen, Johann Jakob, 1687-1747
Dillenius, Jo. Jac. (Johann Jakob), 1687-1747
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Found inHis Hortus Elthamensis, 1732: t.p. (auctore Johanne Jacobo Dillenio M.D.)
DNB (Dillenius, John James, M.D.)
Neue Deutsche Biographie (Dillenius, Johann Jakob; Botaniker; b. 22 Dec 1684 at Darmstadt; d. 13 Apr 1747 at Oxford)
Columbia Encyclopedia 6th ed. Website, May 7, 2001 Dillenius, Johann Jakob (1687-1747, English botanist, of German birth. He published catalogs of the plants of Eltham, Kent, and of Giessen, Germany, and a work on mosses that placed him in the first rank among botanists of his day. A genus of tropical trees, Dillenia, was named after him by Linnaeus)
Encyclopaedia Britannica Website, May 7, 2001 Dillenius, Johann Jakob (b. 1687, Darmstadt, Hesse-Darmstadt [Germany] d. April 2, 1747, Oxford, Eng.; botanist who wrote several descriptive works on plants; Aug. 1721 he went to England, where in 1728 he became the first prof. of botany at Oxford Univ.)