> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 240](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33264967) of TL-2 Suppl. I > Author links: [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q123676201) QID Q123676201 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Backer, Gerard (fl. 1829), Dutch physician, Dr. med. Groningen 1829. **Abbreviated name**: *G. Backer* #### Herbarium and types Unknown. − Some material labeled G. Backer at [[Collection L|L]] may stem from this author. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 99; BM 1: 81; IH 2: 47(?); PR 315, ed. 1: 393. ### Publications ##### n.19.843. Dissertatio botanico-medico **Title** *Dissertatio botanico-medico* inauguralis, *de radicum plantarum physiologia*, earumque virtutibus medicis, plantarum physiologia illustrandus, quam favente summo numine, ex auctoritate rectoris magnifici Gerardi Wolters,... nec non amplissimi Senatus academici consensu et nobilissimae facultatis medicae decreto, pro gradu doctoratus, summisque in medicina honoribus ac privilegiis, in Academia Groningana rite ac legitime consequendis, publico et solemni omnium examini submittit Gerardus Backer, Amstelodamensis. Die xvii Junii mdcccxxix. Hora xi, in auditorio literario. Amstelodami (Amsterdam) (typis H. van Munster et fil.) \[1829\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 17 Jun 1829 (date of defense thesis), p. \[i, blank\], \[iii\]-xvi, \[1\]-108, \[i, err.\]. *Copy*: B-S.