!!!Jacquin, Nikolaus Freiherr von

b. Leiden (Netherlands), Feb. 16, 1727, 
d. Vienna, Oct. 26, 1817, botanist, physician; father of Baron Joseph 
Franz von  Jacquin. Lived in Vienna from 1752, 1768 university 
professor; founder of the Botanical Garden and the botany school in 
Vienna. On study tours in western India he collected plants for 
Austrian museums and gardens, introduced the Linnaean system of 
classification in Austria.

!Works
Hortus botanicus Vindobonensis, 3 vols., 1770-1776; Flora 
Austriaca, 5 vols., 1773-1778.

!Literature
M. Petz, Der Botaniker N. J. Frh. v. J., master's thesis, 
Vienna 1993; NDB.



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