Johann Jakob Dillenius
1687–1747
German-born botanist. Physician in Geissen before moving to England in 1721. Lived with his patron, William Sherard, in Oxford and London. First president of the Botanical Society (London), 1721. Professor of botany at Oxford, 1734. FRS 1724.
Source
ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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