Johann Friedrich Adam
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Johann Friedrich Adam, later called Michael Friedrich
Adams (1780 in Moscow – 1 March 1838, in Vereya) was a botanist from St.
Petersburg, Russia.
He studied from 1795–1796 in the medical
school of St. Petersburg. In the years 1800-1802 he traveled
across Transcaucasia in the entourage of Count Apollo Mussin-Pushkin (1760-1805). In
1805, he was part of a scientific team attached to the unsuccessful diplomatic
mission of Count Yury Golovkin to China. After the
failure of the mission, he and many of the other scientists stayed on in
Siberia to pursue their researches. In 1806, while in Yakutsk, he heard
about an intact woolly mammoth carcass near the mouth of the Lena River.
He hastily arranged an expedition to the location where he was able to recover
most of the skeleton, skin, and almost forty pounds of hair. At the time, and
for almost a century after, this was the most complete mammoth known. He
returned to St. Petersburg with his prize. The skeleton is now on display at
The Museum of Zoology in Saint Petersburg, where it is known as the Adams
mammoth.
Later in his life, he taught as assistant professor for botanics at
the Medico-Surgical Academy of Moscow.
The standard author abbreviation Adams is
used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical
name.[1]
Publications
- Decades quinque
novarum specierum plantarum, Tiflis, 10
November 1802
References
- Allgemeine
Deutsche Biographie - online version at Wikisource
Source: en.wikipedia.org
