Wilhelm Heinrich Kramer

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Wilhem Heinrich Kramer ( born Dresden-1765 was a German physician and naturalist.

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.

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