Johann Christian Buxbaum

Johann Christian Buxbaum ( born October 5, 1693 Merseburg, † July 7, 1730 in Wermsdorf ) was a German botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " JCBuxb. ".

Life

Buxbaum studied medicine at the universities of Leipzig, Wittenberg, Jena and Leyden. On the recommendation of Friedrich Hoffmann, he was invited by Peter the Great. This set him as a botanist, and made a pharmacological garden in the medical college of St. Petersburg. He was from September 1, 1725 to August 11, 1729 for a member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences and professor at the academic high school.

From 1724 he was a physician and companion Alexander Rumjanzews on a diplomatic mission to Constantinople Opel in Turkey. On this occasion he visited Greece, traveled through Asia Minor and by the cities of Baku, Derbent and Astrakhan. 1727 returned to Saint Petersburg, he was a professor at the Academy botanical lectures. During this time he led several botanical expeditions in the direct environment of St. Petersburg and put it in a herbarium with plants from the vicinity of the former capital. 1729 his health deteriorated and he left Russia, returned to Saxony, where he died.

Ehrentaxon

To commemorate his work, one named after him, a moss genus ( Buxbaumia Hedw. ).

Works

• Enumeratio plantarum accuratior in agro Hallensi locisque vicinis crescentium una cum earum characteribus et viribus, Halle, 1721
• Plantarum minus cognitarum centuria I.-V. ( Petro Poli: ex typographia Academiae, from 1728 to 1740, partly after the death published) in five parts with engravings