Hermann Friedrich Teichmeyer

Hermann Friedrich Teichmeyer was a German physician and botanist, born on 30 April 1685 in Hannoversch Münden and died on 5 February 1746. He was a professor at the University of Jena, where his teaching covered experimental physics, medicine and botany. He is remembered as a pioneer of forensic medicine: in 1723 he published Institutiones medicinae legalis vel forensis, an influential textbook on legal medicine that was later translated into German. He was the father-in-law of Albrecht von Haller. The plant genus Teichmeyeria, published by Scopoli in 1777, is likely named after him, though the naming is not documented, and that genus is now treated as a synonym of Gustavia. His range, from physics to botany to legal medicine, is typical of an early eighteenth century university physician.