Dutch gardener at the Friesian University in Franeker. David Meese published a flora of his local region, the Flora frisica (1760), which followed the Linnaean system. This work was in Dutch and did not contain trivial names. His other great work was a botanical text book, of which he published two parts in 1763 in both Latin and Dutch. Known for his experiments into the physiology of mosses, he investigated the propagation of the common hair moss, Polytrichum commune Hedw. The genus Meesia Gaertn. Was named after him in 1788.

Sources:
J. Lindley, 1836, A natural system of botany, or, A systematic view of the organization, natural affinities, and geographical distribution, of the whole vegetable kingdom
F.A. Stafleu, 1971, Linnaeus and the Linnaeans.