> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 450](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355537) of TL-2 Vol. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/6420-1) LSID 6420-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q363389) QID Q363389 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Meyer-Abich, Adolf (1893-x), German biologist, philosopher and historian of biology; Dr. phil Jena 1916; assistant librarian Univ. Göttingen 1917-1919, id. Kiel 1919-1921; librarian Univ. Hamburg 1921-1937 ("Bibliothekrat"), professor's title 1930; professor of philosophy Santiago, Chili 1929-1932; dir. Domin.-German Inst. Rep. Dominicana 1937-1939; from 1956 professor Univ. Hamburg. **Abbreviated name**: *Mey.-Abich* \[standard form in IPNI: *Mey.-Abich*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Note Though not a systematic botanist Meyer-Abich should be mentioned here if only because of the coining of the term *taxon* in his *Logik der Morphologie* 127, 133, 138. 1926 (Berlin, Julius Springer, vii, 290 p.) The present more precise use of the term was proposed by H.J. Lam and accepted by the International Botanical Congress, Stockholm (1950). The use of the word *Taxon* for the journal of IAPT came forward in a discussion, summer 1951, among C.E.B. Bremekamp, J. Lanjouw and F.A. Stafleu. #### Bibliography and biography Bossert p. 265: GR p. 11; TL-2/3139. - Poggendorf, J.C., Biogr.-Lit. Handw.-Buch 7a (3): 291-292. 1958 (bibl.).