Johann Gottlieb Fleischer

Johann Gottlieb Fleischer was a Baltic German botanist and naturalist.
Fleischer was the son of a coppersmith and was born in Mitau. He studied at the local grammar school before studying medicine at the University of Dorpat from 1817 to 1822. He received a doctorate with a thesis on Aneurysmatis varicosi complicati historia. He then worked as a physician in Mitau. He wrote on the flora and fauna of the region collaborating with Emanuel Lindemann and Alexander Bunge on plants. Hie died from tuberculosis.
A member of the Moscow Imperial Society of Naturalists and the Courland Society for Literature and Art he attended a meeting of German naturalists at Hamburg in 1830.

Works

with C. P. Laurop and V. F. Fischer: Sylvan, ein Jahrbuch fur Forstmänner, Jäger und Jagdfreunde ;
with E. Lindemann: Flora der deutschen Ostseeprovinzen Esth-, Liv- und Kurland. Mitau, Leipzig ;
with A. Bunge: . Mitau, Leipzig.