Paul Amman

Paul Amman (1634-1691), German physician and botanist, was born at Breslau in 1634. In 1662 he received the degree of doctor of physic from the university of Leipzig, and in 1664 was admitted a member of the society Naturae Curiosorum, under the name of Dryander. Shortly afterwards he was chosen extraordinary professor of medicine in the above-mentioned university; and in 1674 he was promoted to the botanical chair, which he again in 1682 exchanged for the physiological. He died at Leipzig in 1691. He seems to have been a man of critical mind and extensive learning.


 * His principal works were:


 * Medicina Critica (1670);
 * Paraenesis ad Docentes occupata circa Institutionum Medicarum Emendationem (1673);
 * Irenicum Numae Pompilii cum Hippocrate (1689);
 * Supellex Botanica (1675);
 * Character Naturalis Plantarum (1676).