Carl Johann Maximowicz (Karl Ivanovich Maksimovich) (Carl Maximowitsch)
1827–91
Russian botanist. Studied botany at Dorpat (Tartu), 1845–50. Assistant director, botanic gardens, Dorpat, 1851. Keeper of the herbarium, St Petersburg, 1852; director of the botanic garden, 1864; botanic museum, 1870. Made collecting trips to Amur, 1853–7; China, Korea, 1859–60; Japan, 1860–64. Compiled floras of Japan and other Asiatic regions.
Sources
Album Dorpat s.v. Maximowitsch, Carl
Meyers Konversationslexikon s.v. Maximowicz, Karl Johann
Royal Society catalogue of scientific papers
Bibliography
Album Dorpat: Album academicum der Kaiserlichen Universität Dorpat. Compiled by A. Hasselblatt and D. Otto. Dorpat: C. Mattiesen. 1889.
Meyers Konversationslexikon. 4th edition. Leipzig and Vienna: Verlag des Bibliographischen Instituts. 1885–92.
Royal Society catalogue of scientific papers: Catalogue of scientific papers (1800–1900). Compiled and published by the Royal Society of London. 19 vols. and index (3 vols.). London: Royal Society of London. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1867–1925.
