Johann Friedrich Adam

Michael Friedrich Adams ( * 1780 in Moscow, † March 1, 1838 in Wereja, Russia), actually Johann Friedrich Adam, was a German - Russian botanist and naturalist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Adams ".

Life and work

Adams studied from 1795 to 1796 at the Medical School of Saint Petersburg. 1800 to 1802 he took part in a journey of Count Musin - Pushkin Apollo Transcaucasus. As a zoologist, he accompanied on behalf of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences of the legation under Count Yury Golovkin to China. This expedition failed; Adams was then sent to Yakutsk; 1805 to 1806 he followed in Siberia Lena downriver to see a mammoth locality. Adams hid the skeleton remains of soft tissue and most of the skin of the later Adams mammoth said animal. In 1806 he returned to St. Petersburg. Later he got a job as an " adjunct professor " of botany at the Medico-Surgical Academy in Moscow.

Ehrentaxon

The German botanist Carl Ludwig Willdenow has (now Puschkinia ) named the plant genus Adamsia from the family of hyacinth plants ( Hyacinthaceae ) in his honor.

Works

  • Michael Friedrich Adams: Decades quinque Novarum specierum plantarum. In: Weber and Mohr, posts. 1, Kiel 1805, pp. 41-75.
  • Relation d'un voyage à abrégée la mer glaciale, et découverte of 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 Title page with correct bibliographic information )
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