Background
He was born in Merseburg and studied medicine at the Universities of Leipzig, Wittenberg, Jena, and Leyden.
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Johann Buxbaum
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Leipzig University.
Career
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 Street St. Petersburg. 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 Street 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. 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. Johann Christian Buxbaum was also an entomologist.
Achievements
Membership
Russian Academy of Sciences. Russian Academy of Sciences.
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Nationality
Electorate of Saxony