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Nikolaus Joseph Freiherr von Jacquin was a scientist who studied medicine, chemistry and botany. He travelled to the West Indies as part of an Austrian expedition and collected a large number of botanical specimens and described many species. He served as the first professor of chemistry in the mining academy at Schemnitz in Austria and later worked at the University of Vienna. He was the father o…
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science · Chemist, physician and botanist from the Netherlands · botanist · physician · chemist · explorer · professor · pteridologist · bryologist · zoologist · ornithologist · metallurgist · also Nicolás Joseph Jacquin, Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Nikolaus Joseph Freiherr von Jacquin, Nikolaus von Jacquin, Jacquin, Jacq.
Born 16 February 1727 · Died 26 October 1817 · Q84497
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“Will mich Deutschland, mein geliebtes Vaterland, worauf ich (wie Sie wissen) stolz bin, nicht aufnehmen, so muß in Gottes Namen Frankreich oder England wieder um einen geschickten Deutschen mehr reich werden,- und das zur Schande der deutschen Nation.”
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The Austrian Mint issued silver coins to mark his science expeditions to the Caribbean
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“Reflections on the Schumpeter I knew well”
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“Sie wird das nothwendigste und härteste und die hauptsache in der Musique niemahlen bekommen, nämlich das tempo, weil sie sich vom jugend auf völlig befliessen hat, nicht auf den tact zu spiellen.”
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Died 1817-10-26.
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Became a correspondent of the Royal Institute, which later became the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Born 1727-02-16.
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