Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius     (1794 - 1868)


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Biography
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Selected publications

Biography

1810     enrolls as a medical student at the university of Erlangen, Germany

1814     earns MD, becomes a member of the academy of sciences in Munich

1817 - 1820     botanist on an expedition to Brazil

appointed fellow of the academy (of sciences), then assistant curator of the Munich botanical gardens

1826     appointed professor of botany

1832     promoted to senior curator
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Sources

Heinrich Dörfelt & Heike Heklau (1998) Die Geschichte der Mykologie
      (Die Geschichte der Mykologie)



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Selected Publications

Carl Friedrich Philipp von MartiusIcones plantarum cryptogamicarum quas in itinere annis mdcccxii-mdcccxx per Brasiliam jussu et auspiciis Maximiliani Josephi I Bavariae regis augustissimi instituto collegit et descripsit Carol. Frideric. Philip de Martius (Pictures of cryptogamic plants from a journey to Brazil from the year 1812-1820, instituted by our most just and auspicious king Maximilian Josef the first of Bavaria, collected and described by Carolus Frideric Philip de Martius)

Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1817) Flora cryptogamica Erlangensis (Cryptogamic Plants of Erlangen)

Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1866) Akademische Denkreden (Academic reminiscences)

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