Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus
German physician, naturalist, and proto-evolutionary biologist
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His younger brother, Ludolph Christian Treviranus (1779–1864), was also a naturalist and botanist, and also a notable taxonomist and zoologist.
History
Treviranus was born in Bremen and studied medicine at the University of Göttingen, where he took his doctor's degree in 1796.
During the following year, he was appointed professor of medicine and mathematics at the Bremen Lyceum. In 1816, he was elected a corresponding member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
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