Johann Christian Buxbaum
Johann Christian Buxbaum (born October 5, 1693 in Merseburg , † July 7, 1730 in Wermsdorf ) was a German botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ JCBuxb. ".
Life
Buxbaum studied medicine at the universities in Leipzig , Wittenberg , Jena and Leyden . On the recommendation of Friedrich Hoffmann , he was invited by Peter the Great . He hired him as a botanist and set up a pharmacological garden in the medical college in St. Petersburg. From September 1, 1725 to August 11, 1729 he became a member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences and professor at the academic high school .
From 1724 he was a doctor and companion of Alexander Rumjanzew on a diplomatic mission to Constantinople in Turkey . On this occasion he visited Greece , traveled through Asia Minor and through the cities of Baku , Derbent and Astrakhan . Returned to Saint Petersburg in 1727 , he gave botanical lectures as a professor at the academy. During this time he carried out several botanical expeditions in the immediate vicinity of St. Petersburg and set up a herbarium with plants from the area around the then capital . In 1729 his health deteriorated and he left Russia , returned to Saxony , where he died.
Honor taxon
To commemorate his work, a genus of moss ( Buxbaumia Hedw.) Was named after him .
Works
- Enumeratio plantarum accuratior in agro Hallensi locisque vicinis crescentium una cum earum characteribus et viribus, Halle, 1721
- Plantarum minus cognitarum centuria I.-V. (Petropoli: ex typographia Academiae, 1728–1740, partly published after death) in five parts with copperplate engravings
literature
- Adolf Engler: Buxbaum, Johannes Christian . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 667.
- Hermann goat bacon : Buxbaum, Johannes Christian. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 82 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Johann Christian Buxbaum at the IPNI
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SURNAME | Buxbaum, Johann Christian |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German botanist |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 5, 1693 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Merseburg |
DATE OF DEATH | July 7, 1730 |
Place of death | Wermsdorf |