Johann David Schoepff

Johann David Schoepff , Schoepf or Schöpf is a zoologist, a Botaniste and a German Médecin , famous for its exploration of the North America, born the March 8th 1752 with Wunsiedel and dead the September 10th 1800 with Ansbach.

To the university of Erlanger it follows the lesson of the Naturaliste Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller (1725-1776) and of the last pupil of Carl von Linné, Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber (1739-1810). It obtains its title of doctor in Médecine in 1776.

In 1777, the margrave d' Ansbach, Christian Friedrich Carl Alexander, to release itself from a debt due to England, forwards a quota of 1.285 men to help the English crown vis-a-vis the American rebellion . Schopf goes voluntary as surgeon and doctor. These troops arrive in June 1777 at Staten Island and remain all the war there.

After the end of this one, it obtains the permission to remain in the United States there to travel and study. He traverses thus, generally with foot, the country between New York and the Florida. He also goes in the the Bahamas. He makes appear in 1787 Materia medica americana potissimum regni vegetabilis which is the first study of the medicinal plants of North America.

On its return, it publishes the report of its observations on the new American nation, its book, Reise (1788), is a great success at once.

It is impassioned particularly for the tortoise S and forwards some a very great number in Europe, including alive specimens. It in particular forwards some to its former professor, Schreber, which describes thus Rana pipiens .

Schoepff begins only in 1792 an important book on these animals. It supplements its own observations by the visit of the natural history musea and the collections deprived with the Netherlands and in Prussia. But its sudden death prevents it from finishing its project.

Part of this book simultaneously appears in several versions (Latin and German, with boards in coloured black and white or) between 1792 and 1801. It is Schreber which ensures the posthumous publication of this work.

Source

Kraig Adler (1989). Contributions to the History off Herpetology , Society for the study off amphibians and reptiles.

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