Augustus Quirinus Rivinus
German physician and botanist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Augustus Quirinus Rivinus , also known as August Bachmann or A. Q. Bachmann, was a German physician and botanist who helped to develop better ways of classifying plants. Life and work Rivinus was born in Leipzig, Germany, and studied at the University of Leipzig , continued his studies in the University of Helmstedt . In 1677, he started lecturing in medicine at the University of Leipzig, in 1691 appointed to two chairs, that of physiology and of botany, and made the curator of the University medical garden. In 1701, he became professor of pathology, in 1719, professor of therapeutics and permanent dean of the Faculty of Medicine. The same year he became a Fellow of the Royal Society. Because of his interest also in astronomy, by the last decade of his life , Rivinus was nearly completely blind from looking at sunspots. He died in Leipzig.
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