Michael Bernhard Valentini (26 November 1657 to 18 March 1729) was a medical doctor and collector from the Holy Roman Empire. After taking his doctorate at Giessen in 1686 he became professor of medicine there and personal physician to the Margrave of Assia. He kept an important cabinet of curiosities and wrote Museorum Museum, described as the first study of collections in Europe; in 1720 he published a work on the comparative anatomy of vertebrates. He was elected a member of the Royal Society on 10 November 1715 and belonged to the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher (Leopoldina) and the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin. His other writings, listed in the source article, include a work on natural materials and Viridarium reformatum, a work on plants.
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Michael Bernhard Valentini (26 November 1657-18 March 1729)
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