Genus Pollichia
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For Johann Adam Pollich (1741–1780), German doctor, botanist, entomologist, naturalist and author. After completing his medical studies in Strasbourg, he practised medicine for a while before turning to natural sciences in 1764. He published numerous works relating to physiology and body structure (1763), the history of the plants in the Palatinate, an area of southwestern Germany, titled Historia plantarum in Palatinatu (1776–1777) with CF Schwan (1733–1815), descriptions of some insects (1779), and posthumously two more works on insects (1781, 1783).