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Carl Friedrich Philipp (Karl Friedrich Philipp) von Martius (17 April 1794 – 13 December 1868) was a German botanist and explorer. Between 1817 and 1820, he travelled 10,000 km through Brazil while collecting botanical specimens.
Carl Friedrich Phillip von Martius. 1794-1868. German explorer and botanist whose 1817-20 journey to South America yielded over 6,500 plant species, which he presented to the Munich herbarium.
17 Apr 1794-13 Dec 1868. Biography. German botanist and explorer. Assistant at the Botanic Garden Munich; Botanist on 1817 - 1820 expedition to Brazil; Conservator from 1820 - 1854 at the Botanic Garden Munich; Professor of Botany at Munich University 1820 - 1854. Along with Johann Baptist von Spix, collected material from Ge speaking tribes ...
In 1874, six years after Carl von Martius’ death in Munich, the English anthro- pologist Edward Burnett Tylor (1832–1917) started a debate in Nature, the newly founded scientific journal, on the ‘degeneracy of Man’.
- Raphael Uchôa
- 2021
Carl Friedrich Philipp van Martius is famous as an explorer of Brazil and for having initiated what is to this day the only complete flora of that country. The Flora Brasiliensis describes a total of 22,767 species, including 19,629 plants native to Brazil and 5,689 new to science.
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May 15, 2019 · Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was an assistant at the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences when he joined a team of naturalists sent to Brazil, in 1817, to sketch, collect samples, and record their observations.
Oct 4, 2005 · Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (°1794 Erlangen - †1868) is one of the most famous naturalists of the nineteenth century. At the age of sixteen he received a herbaria containing 5000 specimens from his father and brother.
