Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher, Danish surgeon, botanist, and academic (d. 1830)
Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher (15 November 1757 in Glückstadt, Holstein – 9 December 1830) was a Danish surgeon, botanist and professor of anatomy at the University of Copenhagen. Schumacher carried out significant research work in malacology, in other words on molluscs, and assigned systematic names to many taxa.
1757Nov, 15
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