Herman Diedrich Spöring Sr. (or Spoering) (1701–1747) was a professor of medicine at the Royal Academy of Turku in Turku, Finland, and an amateur naturalist. One of his students was the Finnish scientist and priest Pehr Kalm.[1] Spöring was one of the earliest scientists to propose, in 1747 shortly before his death, of the link between fish and tapeworms.[2]
His son Herman Diedrich Spöring Jr. (1733–1771), a Finnish explorer and botanist, was one of the scientific personnel who accompanied James Cook on the 1768-71 HM Bark Endeavour expedition to the Pacific.
References edit
- ^ Troelstra, Anne S. (2017-06-01). Bibliography of Natural History Travel Narratives. BRILL. p. 232. ISBN 978-90-04-34378-8.
- ^ Malkhazova, Svetlana; Mironova, Varvara; Shartova, Natalia; Orlov, Dmitry (2018-10-24). Mapping Russia's Natural Focal Diseases: History and Contemporary Approaches. Springer. p. 162. ISBN 978-3-319-89605-2.
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