Johann Baptist Bohadsch

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Johann Baptist Bohadsch

Johann Baptist Bohadsch (Czech: Jan Křtitel Boháč; 14 June 1724 – 16 October 1768) was a German professor of botany and pharmacology and a naturalist.

Biography

Johann was born in 1724 in

Jesuit seminary where he learned Latin and philosophy
. He then studied medicine at the "Carolina Medicin".

Between 1746 and 1750, he made trips to Padua, Montpellier, Paris and several German universities and after his return published a dissertation on the uses of electricity in medicine. In 1753 he was made associate professor of natural philosophy in Prague and began to collect materials for a work on the natural history of Bohemia. Interrupted by the war and riots, he travelled to Italy from 1757 to 1759, where he collected and described a number of new species of marine invertebrates. On his return he was appointed professor of botany and pharmacology and in 1762 elected a fellow of the Royal Society.[1] On a natural history trip to Bohemia he contracted a severe chill. He died on 16 October 1768 in Prague.

Writings

His zoological writings include De veris Sepiarum ovis (Pragae 1752)

Leske in 1776. He also published a booklet on the medical benefits of Acacia and of woad (Isatis tinctoria). Another booklet describing the natural history of Gmunden
has remained in manuscript form.

References

  1. ^ "Library and archive Catalogue". Royal Society. Retrieved 2012-03-15.
  2. ^ De veris Sepiarum ovis Google Books. Retrieved 2011-09-02.
  3. ^ De quibusdam animalibus marinis Google Books. Retrieved 2011-09-02.
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