Michael Friedrich Adams
Michael Friedrich Adams (* 1780 in Moscow ; † March 1, 1838 in Wereja , Russia ), actually Johann Friedrich Adam , was a German-Russian botanist and scientist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Adams ".
Live and act
Adams studied at the Saint Petersburg Medical School from 1795 to 1796. From 1800 to 1802 he took part in a trip by Count Apollo Mussin-Pushkin to Transcaucasia . As a zoologist he accompanied the embassy under Count Yuri Golovkin to China on behalf of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences . This expedition failed; Adams was then sent to Yakutsk ; From 1805 to 1806 he followed the Lena downstream in Siberia to find a mammoth site. Adams hid the skeleton, remains of soft tissues and most of the skin of the animal, later known as the Adams mammoth . In 1806 he returned to Saint Petersburg. He later got a job as an "adjunct professor" for botany at the Medical-Surgical Academy in Moscow.
Honor taxon
The German botanist Carl Ludwig Willdenow named the plant genus Adamsia (today Puschkinia ) from the hyacinth family (Hyacinthaceae) in his honor.
Works
- Michael Friedrich Adams: Decades quinque novarum specierum plantarum . In: Weber and Mohr, contributions . tape 1 . Kiel 1805, p. 41-75 .
- Relation abrégée d'un voyage à la mer glaciale, et découverte des restes d'un Mamouth . In: Journal du Nord, XXXII, p. 633, St. Petersbourg (1807) (according to IP Tolmachoff: The Carcasses of the mammoth and rhinoceros found in the frozen ground of Siberia . In: Transactions of the American Philos. Society, Philadelphia , Vol. XXIII, No. 1, 1929, p. I-74b, p. 72. [1] Title page with correct bibliographical information )
literature
- 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 .
- Carl Jessen : Adam, Johann Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 45.
Web links
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Michael Friedrich Adams at the IPNI
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Adams, Michael Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Adam, Johann Friedrich (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Russian botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1780 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 1, 1838 |
| Place of death | Wereja , Russia |