page_title: Nathanael Matthaeus von Wolf
hierarchical_section_title: Nathanael Matthaeus von Wolf
caption_attribution_description: Nathanael Matthaeus von Wolf ( 24 January 1724; 15 December 1784), physician and astronomer
context_page_description: Nathanael Matthaeus von Wolf, Nathanael Matthäus von Wolf, Polish: Nataniel Mateusz Wolf was a German botanist, physician, and astronomer.
  Wolf studied medicine at the University of Erfurt and received his degree of M.D. in 1748. He became the personal physician of Teodor Kazimierz Czartoryski, the Prince-bishop of Poznań, until the bishop's death in 1768. The next year he opened a private office at Tczew and then practised at Danzig from 1772. He went on to spend most of his adult life in Danzig. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1777.
  As an astronomer, Wolf also taught the Corps of Cadets in Warsaw. He was a member of the Danzig Research Society and left his scientific collections to them. He greatly supported the building of a planetarium.
  On 10 May 1785, a few months after Wolf's death, the Danzig physician Philipp Adolph Lampe presented a memorial at the Danzig Research Society.
context_section_description: Nathanael Matthaeus von Wolf, Nathanael Matthäus von Wolf, Polish: Nataniel Mateusz Wolf (28 January 1724 in Konitz  – 15 December 1784 in Danzig) was a German botanist, physician, and astronomer.
  Wolf studied medicine at the University of Erfurt and received his degree of M.D. in 1748. He became the personal physician of Teodor Kazimierz Czartoryski, the Prince-bishop of Poznań, until the bishop's death in 1768. The next year he opened a private office at Tczew and then practised at Danzig (now Gdańsk) from 1772.  He went on to spend most of his adult life in Danzig. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1777.
  As an astronomer, Wolf also taught the Corps of Cadets in Warsaw. He was a member  of the Danzig Research Society (Naturforschende Gesellschaft Danzig) and left his scientific collections to them. He greatly supported the building of a planetarium. 
  On 10 May 1785, a few months after Wolf's death, the Danzig physician Philipp Adolph Lampe presented a memorial at the Danzig Research Society.
caption: Nathanael Matthaeus von Wolf.
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