Johann Bartholomeus Adam Beringer was a German physician and professor of medicine at the University of Würzburg who became the victim of a hoax and ended up describing fake fossils, Beringer's Lying Stones, and considered their origins in a book entitled Lithographiae imaginibus Wirceburgensis ducentis published in 1726.
- Occupation
- physician, philosopher, university teacher, paleontologist
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Born
- 1667
- Died
- April 11, 1738
