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Friedrich Albrecht Anton Meyer

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Friedrich Albrecht Anton Meyer
NationalityGerman
Alma materUniversity of Göttingen
Scientific career
Fieldszoology

Friedrich Albrecht Anton Meyer (29 June 1768 – 29 November 1795) was a German medical doctor and naturalist.

His academic thesis in Göttingen was Dissertatio inauguralis medico-therapeutica De cortice angusturae.

He wrote, in 1793, Systematisch-summarische Uebersicht der neuesten zoologischen Entdeckungen in Neuholland und Afrika, a work on African fauna, especially primates and birds.

His classification of reptiles, Synopsis reptilium, novam ipsorum sistens generum methodum, nec non Gottingensium huius ordinis animalium enumerationem, was published in 1795.

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