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Johann Christian Buxbaum (no later than
October 5,
1693 —
July 7,
1730), was a German physician, botanist and traveller.
He was born in
Merseburg and studied medicine at the Universities of
Leipzig,
Wittenberg,
Jena, and
Leyden.
In
1721 he was invited by
Peter the Great, tsar of Russia, to take up a position as botanist in the Physical Garden, at the Medical Collegium in St Petersburg. In
1724 he became a member of the
St Petersburg Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Professor at the Academic Gymnasium.
In his capacity as a physician, Buxbaum in
1724 was called upon to accompany Alexander
Rumyantsev to
Constantinopolis, in a Russian diplomatic mission to Turkey. He used this opportunity to visit Greece. On his way back from Constantinopolis he visited Asia Minor, travelling through
Baku and
Derbent he reached
Astrachan, to return, finally, to St Petersburg (in
1727). He died in
Wermsdorf,
Saxony.
He is commemorated in the
moss genus
Buxbaumia (also the name of a journal on mosses) and in the names of several species (notably the
sedge Carex buxbaumii) His most notable works are:
- Enumeratio plantarum acculatior in argo Halensi vicinisque locis crescentium una cum earum characteribus et viribus (Halle, 1721)
- Plantarum minus cognitarum centuria I. [-V.] complectens plantas circa Byzantium & in oriente observatas (Petropoli : ex typographia Academiae, 1728—1740, partly posthumously published by Johann Georg Gmelin) in five volumes with copperplates.
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