Andreas Elias Büchner

[1] He served as an influential professor at the University of Erfurt and edited seven volumes a systematic reference on medicine begun by his teacher Friedrich Hoffmann - Medicina rationalis systematica.

He was involved in setting up a natural history collection that would help provide an income to an orphanage.

[3][4] He supervised nearly 30 dissertations and led 323 oral defenses of doctoral candidates including that of Dorothea Erzleben in 1754 (to whom he wrote a poem in Latin).

His most important work was through editing seven volumes of the Medicina rationalis systematica (begun by his teacher Hoffmann) in which he documented symptoms, diagnosis, treatments, and the use of drugs.

He also took an interest in public health, the safety of foods and the dangers of carbon monoxide from coal.