Education
He graduated from the institution which is now University of Tartu, Estonia in (1850), he was a pupil of Alexander G. von Bunge.
Botanist explorer pteridologist bryologist
He graduated from the institution which is now University of Tartu, Estonia in (1850), he was a pupil of Alexander G. von Bunge.
Maximovich spent most of his life studying the flora of the countries he had visited in the Far East, and naming many new species. He worked at the Saint St. Petersburg Botanical Gardens from 1852 as curator of the herbarium collection, becoming Director in 1869. Born a Baltic-German, his name at birth was Karl Ivanovich Maksimovich, but he changed it to the German version of his name for his scientific work.
From 1853-1857 he traveled around the world.
He travelled with another Baltic-German Leopold von Schrenck to the Amur region in eastern Asia. From 1859 to 1864 he also he visited China, of Korea and Japan.
He arrived in Japan in late 1860, initially basing his operations in Hakodate. He traveled extensively in southern Japan and for much of 1862 including the region of Yokohama and Mount Fuji, he ended that year in Nagasaki.
He also explored much of Kyūshū.
He was particularly involved with the flora of Japan, following the footsteps of notably Carl Peter Thunberg, and Philipp Franz von Siebold. His assistant in Japan was Sukawa Chonosuke, whose name was given by Maximovich to the flower Trillium tschonoskii. He also studied the flora of Tibet, concluding that it was chiefly composed of immigrants from Mongolia and the Himalaya.
Commissioned by the Russian Academy of Sciences, he purchased from von Siebold’s widow the set of eight volumes of the famous collection of Japanese botanical illustrations drawn by several Japanese artists.
Acer maximowiczianum: Nikko maple, China & Japan
Atriplex maximowicziana: Maximovich"s Saltbush
Betula maximowiczii: Monarch Birch, Japan
Crataegus maximowiczii Schneid. Kalopanax pictus var maximowiczii: China, Manchuria, of Korea, Japan 1865
Lilium leichtlinii Hooker f. various maximowiczii (Regel) Baker: (also named after the German botanist Max Leichtlin)
Picea maximowiczii: Maximovich Spruce, Japan
Populus maximowiczii: Maximovich" Poplar
Maximowicz"s vole (Microtus maximowiczii)
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Maximovich described and named over 2300 plants which were previously unknown to science.
Genus Circaeaster Maxim. – family Circaeasteraceae
Acer argutum Maxim.
Acer barbinerve Maxim.
Acer capillipes Maxim. Acer miyabei Maxim. Acer mono Maxim. Acer nikoense Maxim. Acer tschonoskii Maxim.
Berberis thunbergii Maxim.
Buddleja alternifolia Maxim. Calanthe reflexa Maxim.
Elaeagnus oldhamii Maxim. Goodyera macrantha Maxim.
Juglans mandshurica Maxim.
Liparis japonica Maxim. Pedicularis artselaeri Maxim. – family Scrophulariaceae
Platanthera hologlottis Maxim.
Rhododendron schlippenbachii Maxim.
Trichosanthes kirilowii Maxim. Trillium tschonoskii Maxim.
- Japan, of Korea, northeastern China, and far-eastern Russia
Tulotis ussuriensis (Maxim) Hara
Yoania japonica Maxim.
Russian Academy of Sciences. Russian Academy of Sciences. Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.