Christian von Steven
Christian von Steven (Russian: Христиан Христианович Стевен - Khristian Khristianovich Steven; 19 January 1781, in Fredrikshamn, Finland – 30 April 1863, in Simferopol, Crimea) was a Finnish-born Russian botanist and entomologist.
Steven studied medicine at Saint Petersburg University before working at a centre for silk production in the Caucasus where he commenced as an assistant, progressing to inspector (1806). In 1812, he participated in the creation of a Nikitsky Botanical Garden at Nikita in the Crimea, which he directed from 1824. From 1826 to 1851, he directed a Magnanery. In 1815, he was elected a corresponding member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
He collected an important herbarium which is deposited at the Botanical Museum of the University of Helsinki.
Works
Monographia Pedicularis, 1822.
Verzeichnis der auf der taurischen Halbinsel wildwachsenden Pflanzen, 1856-1857.
References
- Translation of the article in French Wikipedia
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External links
Alexander von Nordmann (1865) Christian Steven, der Nestor der Botaniker, in Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc, B. XXXVIII, 1-2, p. 100 sq.
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