Johann Amman (doctor)
Johann Amman , also Johannes , Russian Иоганн Амман (born December 22, 1707 in Schaffhausen , † December 14, 1740 or December 4, 1741, also 1742. in St. Petersburg ) was a Swiss doctor and botanist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Amman ".
Life
The son of the physicist Johann Jakob Amman studied medicine and botany at the University of Leiden from 1727 to 1729 , where he was awarded a Dr. med. received his doctorate. In 1730 he became supervisor of the Hans Sloane Museum in London. From 1733 to 1740 he worked as a professor of botany and natural history at the Imperial Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg. From 1731 he was a member of the Royal Society of London . Amman laid out the Academic Botanical Garden in St. Petersburg in 1736. He also left an extensive herbarium , which the academy acquired after his death.
In addition to smaller treatises, Ammann has begun a careful, critical presentation of rare Russian plants with good illustrations and left them as fragments.
Fonts
- Stirpium rariorum in Imperio Ruthenico sponte provenientium icones et descriptiones. Petersburg 1739 ( online ).
literature
- Carl Jessen: Ammann, Johannes . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 401.
- Rudolf Mumenthaler: Ammann, Johann. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Rudolf Mumenthaler: Nobody lives in poverty. Swiss doctors in the tsarist empire. Zurich 1991 ( Contributions to the history of the Russian-Swiss. 4).
Web links
- Publications by Johann Ammann (1707–1740) in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library <
- Author entry and list of the plant names described for Johann Amman (physician) at the IPNI
- Correspondence between Johann Amman and Carl von Linné
- Entry to Amman; John (1707–1741) in the Archives of the Royal Society , London
Individual evidence
- ↑ There are various indications: on German biography
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Amman, Johann |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Johannes Ammann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss doctor and botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 22, 1707 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schaffhausen |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 14, 1740 |
| Place of death | St. Petersburg |