Johann Anton Weinmann (russian: Иван Андреевич Вейнман; 23 December 1782,
Würzburg
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- 5 August 1858,
Pavlovsk) was a German
botanist who served as Inspector of the Gardens in
Saint Petersburg
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, Russia. He published a ''Flora'' that is the basis of some binomial species identifications.
Beginning in 1803, he was head gardener of the newly established botanical garden in
Dorpat
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; from 1823 he served as inspector of the garden of
Empress Maria Fyodorovna in Pavlovsk near St. Petersburg.
He also studied fungi (being, for instance, the original author for the name ''Echinoderma acutesquamosum'') and his name is commemorated with the
mycological genera ''
Weinmannioscyphus'' and ''
Weinmannodora'', the latter genus being circumscribed by
Elias Magnus Fries in 1849.
Published works
* ''Der botanische Garten der Kaiserlichen Universität zu Dorpat im Jahre 1810''. 1810 - The botanical garden of the Imperial
University of Dorpat
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in 1810.
* "Elenchus plantarum horti Imperialis Pawlowsciensis et agri Petropolitani", St. Petersburg 1824.
* "Hymeno- et Gasteromycetes hujusque in imperio Rossico observatas recensuit", St. Petersburg 1836.
* "Enumeratio stirpium in agro Petropolitano sponte crescentium", St. Petersburg 1837.
Русский Биографический Словарь: Вейнман I. А.
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References
External links
IPNI
List of plants described & co-described by Weinmann.
19th-century botanists from the Russian Empire
1782 births
1858 deaths
German emigrants to the Russian Empire
Corresponding members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences
Scientists from Würzburg
19th-century German botanists
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