Johann Amman
Johann Amman, Johannes Amman or Иоганн Амман (22 December 1707 in
Notable work
He is best known for his Stirpium Rariorum in Imperio Rutheno Sponte Provenientium Icones et Descriptiones published in 1739 with descriptions of some 285 plants from Eastern Europe and Ruthenia (now Ukraine). The plates are unsigned, though an engraving on the dedicatory leaf of the work is signed "Philipp Georg Mattarnovy", a Swiss-Italian engraver, Filippo Giorgio Mattarnovi (1716–1742), who worked at the St. Petersburg Academy.[1][2]
Life
Amman was a student of
Amman founded the Botanical Garden of the Academy of Sciences on Vasilyevsky Island in St Petersburg in 1735. In 1739 he married Elisabetha Schumacher, daughter of Johann Daniel Schumacher, the court librarian in St Petersburg.[5]
Naming
Johann Amman is denoted by the
Notes
- ^ "Imperial Botany". polybiblio.com. Archived from the original on 2008-05-16.
- ^ Маттарнови Филипп Егорович. Biografija.ru Биография.ру (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2011-10-02. Retrieved 2008-03-12.
- ^ http://journals.royalsociety.org/content/ea04bp9fjbb5k73n/fulltext.pdf[permanent dead link]
- ^ "The Linnaean Correspondence". linnaeus.c18.net. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2008-03-11.
- ^ Johann Amman in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.
- ISBN 1-84246-085-4.
External links
- Linnaeus.c18.net: Johann Amman correspondence with Carl Linnaeus
- Data related to Johann Amman at Wikispecies