Karl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
1794–1868
German botanist and ethnologist. Assistant to the conservator of the Munich botanic garden, 1814. Accompanied the Austrian expedition to Brazil, 1817–20, returning with several thousand specimens for the botanic garden. Professor of botany, Munich, 1826; principal conservator of the botanic garden, institute, and collections, 1832. Secretary of the physiomathematical section of the Royal Bavarian Academy, Munich, 1840.
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DSB.
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
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