Christian Wilhelm Büttner
Affiliations: | Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Niedersachsen, Germany |
Area:
Natural history, comparative philologyWebsite:
http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd117145068.htmlGoogle:
"Christian Wilhelm Büttner"Bio:
(1716 - 1801)
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Wilhelm_B%C3%BCttner
http://books.google.com/books?id=oDam18HnrzwC&lpg=PA34&pg=PA34#v=onepage&q&f=true
Self-taught polyglot. It is said that in 1737 Büttner shared a room with Linnaeus in Leiden, where they were taking classes from a.o. Boerhaave, see http://books.google.com/books?id=E4OrAgAAQBAJ&lpg=PT60&pg=PT60#v=onepage&q&f=true The orientalist Michaelis was instrumental in getting Büttner appointed to a teaching position in natural history and philology despite B's lack of a formal education, see http://books.google.com/books?id=XtV2nJcVolQC&lpg=PA278&pg=PA279#v=onepage&q&f=true
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Parents
Sign in to add mentorHerman Boerhaave | research assistant | 1737 | Leiden (Neurotree) |
Johann David Michaelis | research scientist | 1755 | Universität Göttingen (LinguisTree) |