CARL See also:

• FRIEDRICH, JOHANN (1836— )

FRIEDRICH PHILIPP VON See also:

• CARL FRIEDRICH PHILIPP VON MARTIUS (1794—1868)

MARTIUS (1794—1868)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German botanist and traveller, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the 17th of See also:

• APRIL

April 1794 at See also:

• ERLANGEN

Erlangen, where be graduated M.D. in x814, See also:

• PUBLISHING

publishing as his thesis a See also:

• CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

critical See also:

• CATALOGUE (a Fr. adaptation of the Gr. KaraXoyos, a register, from Karalyety, to enrol or pick out)

catalogue of See also:

• PLANTS

plants in the botanic See also:

• GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

garden of the university . He afterwards devoted himself to botanical study, and in 1817 he and J . B. von Spix were sent to See also:

• BRAZIL
• BRAZIL, or BRASIL

Brazil by the See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king of See also:

• BAVARIA (Ger. Bayern)

Bavaria . They travelled from Rio de Janeiro through several of the See also:

• SOUTHERN

southern and eastern provinces of Brazil, and ascended the See also:

• RIVER

river See also:

• AMAZON

Amazon to Tabatinga, as well as some of its larger affluents . On his return to See also:

• EUROPE

Europe in 182o he was appointed See also:

• CONSERVATOR (Lat. conservare, to preserve)

conservator of the botanic garden at See also:

• MUNICH (Ger. Munchen)

Munich, and in 1826 See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of See also:

• BOTANY (from Gr. l3or6v17, plant; ,66vicety, to graze)

botany in the university there, and held both offices till 1864 . He devoted his See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention to the See also:

• FLORA

flora of Brazil, and in addition to numerous See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short papers he published the Nova Genera et See also:

• SPECIES

Species Plantarum Brasiliensium (1823-1832, 3 vols.) and Icones selectae Plantarum Cryptogamicarum Brasiliensium (1827), both See also:

• WORKS

works being finely illustrated . An See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of his travels in Brazil appeared in 3 vols . 4to, 1823—1831, with an See also:

• ATLAS

atlas of plates, but probably the See also:

• WORK

work by which he is best known is his Historia Palmarum (1823—1850) in 3 large See also:

• FOLIO (properly the ablative case of the Lat. folium, leaf, but also frequently an adaptation of the Ital. foglio)

folio volumes, of which one describes the palms discovered by himself in Brazil . In 1840 he began the Flora Brasiliensis, with the assistance of the most distinguished See also:

• EUROPEAN

European botanists, who undertook monographs of the various orders . Its publication was continued after his See also:

• DEATH

death under the editorship of A . W . Eichler (1839—1887) until 1887, and subsequently of Ignaz von See also:

• URBAN
• URBAN (Urbanus)

Urban .

He also edited several works on the zoological collections made in Brazil by Spix, after the death of the latter in 1826 . On the outbreak of See also:

• POTATO
• POTATO (Solanum tuberosum)

potato disease in Europe he investigated it and published his observations in 1842 . He also published works and short papers on the See also:

• ABORIGINES

aborigines of Brazil, on their See also:

• CIVIL

civil and social See also:

• CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together)

condition, on their past and probable future, on their diseases and medicines, and on the See also:

• LANGUAGES

languages of the various tribes, especially the Tupi . He died at Munich on the 13th of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1868 .