Johann Friedrich Eschscholtz (Russian: Иоганн Фридрих фон Эшшольц) (1 November 1793 – 19 May 1831) was a Russian Baltic German physician, botanist, zoologist and entomologist.
Eschscholtz was born in Dorpat (now Tartu), Governorate of Estonia in the Russian Empire. He studied medicine at the local University of Dorpat, and spent his main career there as well: extraordinary professor of anatomy (1819), director of the zoological cabinet (1822), an...
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Johann Friedrich Eschscholtz (Russian: Иоганн Фридрих фон Эшшольц) (1 November 1793 – 19 May 1831) was a Russian Baltic German physician, botanist, zoologist and entomologist.
Eschscholtz was born in Dorpat (now Tartu), Governorate of Estonia in the Russian Empire. He studied medicine at the local University of Dorpat, and spent his main career there as well: extraordinary professor of anatomy (1819), director of the zoological cabinet (1822), and professor of anatomy (1828).
From 1815-1818 Eschscholtz was a physician and naturalist on the Russian circumnavigational expeditionary ship Rurik (Russian: Рюрик) under the command of Otto von Kotzebue . He collected specimens in Brazil, Chile, California, the Pacific Islands, and on either side of the Bering Strait, Kamchatka, and the Aleutian Islands. The other naturalist was the botanist Adelbert von Chamisso, who took over Eschscholtz's specimens, excepting insects on completion of the voyage. The two were close friends and Chamisso...
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