Johann Friedrich Adam

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Johann Friedrich Adam, later called Michael Friedrich Adams (1780, Moscow - 1 March 1838, Vereya) was a botanist from St. Petersburg, Russia.

He studied from 1795-1796 in the medical school of St. Petersburg. In the years 1800-1802 he traveled across Transcaucasia in the entourage of Count Apollo Mussin-Pushkin (1760-1805). In the following he led a mission of Count Juri Alexandrowich Golowkin to China being the zoologist of the school. The mission failed and he was sent to Yakutsk. In 1805-1806 he travelled along the Lena river to find a famous mammoth, after which he returned to St. Petersburg.

Later in his life, he taught as assistant professor for botanics at the medico-surgical academy of Moscow.

The standard author abbreviation Adams is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.[1]

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  1. ^ Brummitt, R. K.; C. E. Powell (1992). Authors of Plant Names. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. ISBN 1-84246-085-4. 
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