Johann Christian Senckenberg
Physician, Deceased Person
1707 – 1772
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Who was Johann Christian Senckenberg?
Johann Christian Senckenberg was a German physician, naturalist and collector.
Senckenberg was born in Frankfurt am Main. In 1763 he established the Senckenberg Foundation to support natural sciences. This founded the Botanischer Garten der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt am Main.
His name is honoured in the Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung which he endowed, Frankfurt University Library, and Naturmuseum Senckenberg.
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