Carl Anton von Meyer
Carl Anton von Meyer (born April 1, 1795 in Vitebsk ; † February 24, 1855 in Saint Petersburg ) was a Russian-German botanist . In Russia he is known as Karl Antonowitsch von Mejer ( Карл Анто́нович фон Ме́йер ). Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ CAMey. "
Live and act
He was director of the St. Petersburg Botanical Garden. In 1852 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .
Honors
The plant genus Meyeria DC. from the sunflower family (Asteraceae) is named after Carl Anton von Meyer, Johann Carl Friedrich Meyer , Friedrich Albrecht Anton Meyer , Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Meyer and Ernst Heinrich Friedrich Meyer .
Works
- List of plants which were found and collected during the voyage undertaken at the highest orders in the years 1829 and 1830 in the Caucasus and the provinces on the western shore of the Caspian Sea. Book printing of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg 1831 Digitized
- List of plants collected in 1838 on Saisang-Nor and Irtysch (together with August Gustav Heinrich von Bongard ), 1841
- Enumeratio plantarum novarum a cl. Schrenk lectarum (together with Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer ), 1841–1842
- Florula provinciae Tambov , 1844
- Attempt of a monograph of the genus Ephedra , 1846
- Sertum petropolitanum (together with Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer ; completed in 1869 by Eduard August von Regel ), 1846–1852
- Florula ochotensis phaenogama (together with Ernst Rudolph von Trautvetter ), in “Journey to the extreme north and east of Siberia”, 1847
- Florula provinciae Wiatka , 1848
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- Robert Zander : Zander concise dictionary of plant names . Ed .: Fritz Encke , Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold . 13th, revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .
Web links
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Carl Anton von Meyer at the IPNI
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meyer, Carl Anton von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mejer, Karl Antonovič |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian-German botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 1, 1795 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vitebsk |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 24, 1855 |
| Place of death | St. Petersburg |