title: Philipp Jakob Sachs
text: # Philipp Jakob Sachs
  
  Philipp Jakob Sachs (26 August 1627, Breslau- 7 January 1672, Breslau) was a German physician, naturalist, and editor of Ephemerides Academiae naturae curiosorum, the first ever learned journal in the field of medicine and natural history. He was a state physician in Breslau, and one of the founders of the Academia Naturae Curiosorum (Leopoldina).
  
  His works include the 1665 Gammarologia, on crabs.
  
  ## Works
  
  * Ampelographia (in Latin). Leipzig. Jacob Trescher. 1661.
  