Wilhelm Heinrich Kramer

Saxonian-Austrian physician and naturalist (died 1765)

Wilhem Heinrich Kramer (1724 in Dresden – 13 October 1765) was a German physician and naturalist.^[1]

Kramer studied in Vienna (Austria) then practiced medicine in Bruck, close to the capital, for at least fourteen years. He published in 1756 a work entitled Elenchus Vegetabilium and Animalium per Austriam inferiorem Observatorum, a flora and fauna of Lower Austria noted especially because it was one of the first works to adopt the binomial nomenclature of Carl von Linné (1707–1778). In this book, Kramer created the name pratincola for the collared pratincole which was adapted in English in the following work of Thomas Pennant (1726–1798) in 1773. It is probably for him that Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (1723–1788) dedicated Psittacus krameri (today Psittacula krameri) in 1769. He is also known as an entomologist.

The standard author abbreviation Kramer is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.^[2]

Sources

Pierre Cabard et Bernard Chauvet (2003). L’Étymologie des noms d’oiseaux, Belin (Paris), collection Éveil nature : 590 p. ISBN 2-7011-3783-7

References

^ Klemun, Marianne (2012). "Ein "bloß vom privaten Fleiß eines mittellosen Praktikers der Medizin überall gesammeltes Büschel" – Wilhelm Heinrich Kramers (1724–1765) botanische Arbeit" (PDF). Verh. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Österreich. 148–149: 377–396.
^ International Plant Names Index. Kramer.