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'''Johann Jacob Baier''' (14 June 1677– 14 July 1735) was a German physician and naturalist who wrote on the geology and fossils of the [[Nuremberg]] area in his book ''Oryctographia Norica''. He considered the Deluge of the Bible to be the only catastrophe to have occurred in earth history.
[[File:Frontispiece_baier.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Frontispiece from ''Oryctographia Norica'']]
Baier was born in [[Jena]], the son of theologian [[Johann Wilhelm Baier]] and Anna Katharine Musaeus. He was educated at Jena then received a degree in medicine from [[Halle (Saale)|Halle]] after which he became a professor at [[Altdorf, Uri|Altdorf, Switzerland]] from 1704. He became a personal physician to the Emperor in 1731. Baier was elected to the [[German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina|Leopoldina Academy]] over which he presided from 1731.<ref></ref> Apart from his collections of fossils, he also collected portraits of learned people, with a collection of nearly 600 of them.<ref></ref> Baier also published a biographical account of the medical faculty at Altdorf.
== References ==
== External links ==
* [https://ift.tt/3jvcPj1 Oryktographia norica (1708)]
* [https://ift.tt/2GjWGih Sciagraphia Musei Sui (1730)]
[[Category:German paleontologists]]
[[Category:German naturalists]]
[[Category:1677 births]]
[[Category:1735 deaths]]
[[Category:People from Jena]]
'''Johann Jacob Baier''' (14 June 1677– 14 July 1735) was a German physician and naturalist who wrote on the geology and fossils of the [[Nuremberg]] area in his book ''Oryctographia Norica''. He considered the Deluge of the Bible to be the only catastrophe to have occurred in earth history.
[[File:Frontispiece_baier.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Frontispiece from ''Oryctographia Norica'']]
Baier was born in [[Jena]], the son of theologian [[Johann Wilhelm Baier]] and Anna Katharine Musaeus. He was educated at Jena then received a degree in medicine from [[Halle (Saale)|Halle]] after which he became a professor at [[Altdorf, Uri|Altdorf, Switzerland]] from 1704. He became a personal physician to the Emperor in 1731. Baier was elected to the [[German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina|Leopoldina Academy]] over which he presided from 1731.<ref></ref> Apart from his collections of fossils, he also collected portraits of learned people, with a collection of nearly 600 of them.<ref></ref> Baier also published a biographical account of the medical faculty at Altdorf.
== References ==
== External links ==
* [https://ift.tt/3jvcPj1 Oryktographia norica (1708)]
* [https://ift.tt/2GjWGih Sciagraphia Musei Sui (1730)]
[[Category:German paleontologists]]
[[Category:German naturalists]]
[[Category:1677 births]]
[[Category:1735 deaths]]
[[Category:People from Jena]]
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