Johann, or Jean, Hermann (December 31, 1738 in Barr

Barr, Bas-Rhin

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, Alsace

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  - October 4, 1800 in Strasbourg

Strasbourg

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) was a French

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 physician

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 and naturalist

Natural history

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. He was professor of medicine

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 at the University of Strasbourg

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. He was the author of Tabula affinitatum animalium (1783) and Observationes zoologicae quibus novae complures, published posthumously in 1804. His zoological collection was bought by the city of Strasbourg in 1804 and served as the base for the Strasbourg zoological Museum

Musée zoologique de l'ULP et de la ville de Strasbourg

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Hermann's name survives most famously through Hermann's Tortoise.