Joseph Jakob Plenck

Joseph Jakob Ritter Plenk or Plenck (28 November 1738 – 24 August 1807) was a physician and polymath in the Holy Roman Empire.

[1] Plenck was born on 28 November 1738 in Vienna, although some sources give a birth year of 1732.

[2] He graduated at the University of Vienna in 1763, and was a follower of Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz.

[2] In 1861, botanist Siegfried Reisseck published Plenckia, a genus of flowering plants from South America, belonging to the family Celastraceae and named in honour of Joseph Jakob Plenck.

[4] In 1776 he published a classification of skin diseases, Doctrina de morbis cutaneis.