> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 475](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212517) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/10814-1) LSID 10814-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60309) QID Q60309 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Treviranus, Gottfried Reinhold (1776-1837), German (Bremen) biologist, brother of Ludolph Christian Treviranus; studied medicine at Göttingen 1793-1796; Dr. med. ib. 1796; professor of mathematics and medicine at the Bremen Lyceum ("gymnasium illustre") and practicing physician in Bremen 1797-1837; introduced the notion of biology as the science of life in Germany (1802) almost simultaneously with Lamarck in France. **Abbreviated name**: *G. Trevir.* \[standard form in IPNI: *G.Trevir.*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. Archival material and library in Staatsbibliothek Bremen. #### Bibliography and biography ADB 38: 588. 1894; Barnhart 3: 400 (b. 4 Feb 1776, d. 16 Feb 1837); BM 5: 2137; CSP 6: 34-35; De Toni 1: cxxiv; DSB 13: 460-462 (P. Smit) (bibl.); Herder p. 33; Jackson p. 37. #### Biofile - Anon., Brit. Mus. gen. cat. print. books 241: 301-302. 1964; Cat. gén. livr. impr. Bibl. natl. 194: 62. 1966. - Barkhausen, G., *in* Biogr. Skizz. Brem. Aerzte Naturf. 432-590. 1844. - Baron, W., Technik Geschichte 33(4): 307-328. 1966 (study on the notion "biology" with Burdach, Treviranus and Lamarck). - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 278.42. 1980. - Focke, W.O., Abh. naturw. Ver. Bremen 6: 11-48. 1879 (biogr.; further biogr. refs. on p. 34). - Förster, K., EHK, Acta med. empir. 6: 401-402. 1985. - Hirsch, A. et al., eds., Biogr. Lex. hervorrag. Ärzte ed. 2. 5: 633. 1934. - Knittermeyer, H., Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus, Bremen 1937, 23 p., Bremer Beitr. Naturw. 4(1): 1-23. 1937. - Martius, C.F.P. von, Akad. Denkreden 55-70. 1866 (biogr., evaluation). - Mon., G., Encicl. ital. 34: 281-282. 1937. - Mourgue, R., J. compar. Neurol. 56: 503-510. 1932 (on his concept of biology). - Nissen, C., Zool. Buchill. 411. 1969. - O., Dict. Sci. méd., Biogr. méd. 7: 360-361. 1825. - Poggendorff, J.C., Biogr.-lit. Handw.-Buch 2: 1132-1133. 1863, 3: 697-698. 1898 (extensive secondary refs., not repeated here). - Schmid, G., Nova Acta Leop. ser. 2. 2(3-4)(8): 597-620. 1935 (term "biology" coined by Karl Friedrich Burdach 1800 in a medical-anthropological context). - Schunke, I., Sudhoff's Arch. Gesch. Med. 30: 115-132. 1965 ("Nachlass" Staatsbibl. Bremen). #### Composite works Editor, *Zeitschrift für Physiologie* 1-5, 1824-1835. ### Publications ##### n.15.080. Biologie **Title** *Biologie*, oder Philosopie der lebenden Natur für Naturforscher und Aerzte... Göttingen (bey Johann Friedrich Röwer) 1802-1822, 6 vols. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Biologie*. **Notes** *1*: 1802, p. \[i\]-xiv, \[1\]-477, \[478\]. – *Classen der Pflanzen* on p. 433-445. *2*: 1803, p. \[i\]-iv, \[1\]-508. – Treats e.g. plant geography. *3*: 1805, p. \[i\]-iv, \[1\]-593, \[594, err.\]. *4*: 1814, p. \[i\]-x, \[1\]-662. *5*: 1818, p. \[i\]-v, \[1\]-476, *pl. 1-4.* *6*: 1822, p. \[i\]-vi, \[1\]-579, \[580\], 4 charts. *Copies*: B (vol. 1), U-UB (1-6).