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Apr 01, 1795 Vitebsk, Belarus Died on 24 Feb 1855 (aged 59)
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About Carl Anton Von Meyer
- Carl Anton von Meyer (in Russian: ???? ????´????? ??? ??´???, Karl Antonovich von Meyer) (1 April 1795 – 24 February 1855) was a German, Russified botanist and explorer. Meyer was born in Vitebsk.
- He received his education at the University of Dorpat (1813-14) as a student of Karl Friedrich von Ledebour, with whom he later embarked on a scientific journey to the Crimea (1818).
- In 1826, with Ledebour and Alexander G.
- von Bunge, he took part in an expedition to the Altay Mountains and the Kirghiz Steppe (Kazakhstan).
- Plants collected on the trip formed the basis of "Flora Altaica" (four volumes issued between 1829 and 1833).In 1835 he began work as a botanist for the Academy of Sciences in St.
- Petersburg, where he conducted research with Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer.
- In 1844 he succeeded Carl Bernhard von Trinius as director of the academy's botanical museum, and in 1850 replaced Fischer as head of the imperial botanical garden.
- Meyer was the only botanist to have held both positions, being in charge of the garden and museum simultaneously until his death in Saint Petersburg in 1855.
