Johannes Scherbius (1 June 1769, Frankfurt am Main – 8 November 1813) was a German physician and botanist.Google Books Bericht über die Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft in Frankfurt
In 1790 he obtained his doctorate of medicine at Jena, later working as a physician in his hometown of Frankfurt. In Frankfurt, he was associated with the Senckenberg Institute.Biodiversity Heritage Library Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
With Philipp Gottfried Gaertner and Bernhard Meyer, he was co-author of "Oekonomisch-technische Flora der Wetterau" (Economic-technical flora of Wetterau), a three-volume work that was a source of scientific names for numerous plants.IPNI List of plants described and co-described by Scherbius
Published works "Dissertatio inauguralis medica de Lysimachiae purpureae sive Lythri salicariae Linn. virtute medicinali non dubia", Jenae, Ex Officina Fiedleriana (1790). "Commentationis de sanguinis missione in febribus intermittentibus", (1790). Oekonomisch-technische Flora der Wetterau, (1799-1802, 3 vols. [vol. 1 (VI-VII.1799); vol. 2 (V-VII.1800); vol. 3 (1) (I-VI.1801); vol. 3 (2) (1802); (with Philipp Gottfried Gaertner and Bernhard Meyer).Bibdigital Imagenes Pharmakopoe und Arznei-Taxe für das bei der hiesigen Armen-Anstalt angestellte medicinische Personale, (1809).WorldCat Identities Most widely held works by Johannes Scherbius
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