Johann Ehrenfried Pohl

Johann Ehrenfried Pohl (12 September 1746, Leipzig – 25 October 1800, Dresden) was a German physician and botanist. He was the son of physician Johann Christoph Pohl (1706–1780).

From 1763 to 1769 he studied medicine at the University of Leipzig, receiving his doctorate in 1772. Afterwards he embarked on an extended study trip to Strasbourg, Paris, Rouen and the Netherlands. In 1773 he became an associate professor of botany at Leipzig, where he later served as a professor of pathology (1789–96) and therapy (1796–1800).^[1]

In 1774 he became a member of the Römisch-Kaiserlichen Akademie der Naturforscher,^[1] and in 1788 was named a personal physician to royalty in Dresden.^[2] The moss genus Pohlia was named in his honor by Johann Hedwig.^[3]

Published works

• Animadversiones in structuram ac figuram foliorum in plantis, 1771.
• De sensibus morborum causism, 1772 (with Anton Wilhelm Plaz, respondent Johann Ehrenfried Pohl).
• De soli differentia in cultura plantarum attendenda, 1773.
• De varice interno morborum quorundam caussa, 1785.
• De medico exorcistam, 1788 (respondent Johann Gottfried Jancke).
• Programma qua de analogia inter morbillos et tussim convulsivam, 1789.^[4]

References

1. Prof. Dr. med. Johann Ehrenfried Pohl Professorenkatalog der Universität Leipzig
2. Plett - Schmidseder edited by Walther Killy
3. Lexikon deutschsprachiger Bryologen, Volume 1 by Jan-Peter Frahm, Jens Eggers
4. Most widely held works by Johann Ehrenfried Pohl WorldCat Identities
5. "Author Query for 'J.E.Pohl'". International Plant Names Index.