Nationality German Fields Zoology | Died 1795 Name Friedrich Anton | |
Alma mater University of Gottingen | ||
Education University of Gottingen | ||
Friedrich Albrecht Anton Meyer (29 June 1768 – 29 November 1795) was a German doctor and naturalist.
His academic thesis in Göttingen was Dissertatio inauguralis medico-therapeutica De cortice angusturae.
He wrote, in 1793, Systematisch-summarische Uebersicht der neuesten zoologischen Entdeckungen in Neuholland und Afrika, a work on African fauna, especially primates and birds.
His classification of reptiles, Synopsis reptilium, novam ipsorum sistens generum methodum, nec non Gottingensium huius ordinis animalium enumerationem, was published in 1795.
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