High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nikolaus Joseph Freiherr von Jacquin or Baron Nikolaus von Jacquin. (February 16, 1727 – October 26, 1817) was a Dutch scientist who studied medicine, chemistry and botany. He was born in Leiden in the Netherlands, where he studied medicine, but later moved first to Paris and then Vienna. Between 1755 and 1759 Nikolaus von Jacquin was sent to the West Indies and Central America by Francis I to collect plants for the Schonbrunn Palace, and amassed a large collection of animal, plant and mineral samples. In 1762, Nikolaus von Jacquin became Professor of Minerals and Mining at the Mining Academy in Schemnitz (now Banska Stiavnica in Slovakia). In 1768 he was appointed Professor of Botany and Chemistry and became Director of the botanical gardens of the University of Vienna. For his work, he was knighted in 1774. In 1783, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In 1806 he was made baron.

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