Carl Friedrich von Ledebour (8 July 1786 in

Stralsund Stralsund (; Swedish language, Swedish: ''Strålsund''), officially the Hanseatic League, Hanseatic City of Stralsund (German language, German: ''Hansestadt Stralsund''), is the fifth-largest city in the northeastern German federal state of Mecklen ...

– 4 July 1851 in

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also Karl Friedrich von Ledebour) was a Baltic German

botanist Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plant taxonomy, taxonomy, and Plant ecology, ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who s ...

. Between 1811 and 1836, he was professor of science in the

University of Tartu The University of Tartu (UT; ; ) is a public research university located in the city of Tartu, Estonia. It is the national university of Estonia. It is also the largest and oldest university in the country.

, Estonia. His most important works were ''Flora Altaica'', the first

Flora Flora (: floras or florae) is all the plant life present in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring (indigenous (ecology), indigenous) native plant, native plants. The corresponding term for animals is ''fauna'', and for f ...

of the

Altay Mountains The Altai Mountains (), also spelled Altay Mountains, are a mountain range in Central and East Asia, where Russia, China, Mongolia, and Kazakhstan converge, and where the rivers Irtysh and Ob have their headwaters. The massif merges with th ...

, published in 1833, and ''Flora Rossica'', published in four volumes between 1841 and 1853, the first complete flora of the

Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its establishment in November 1721 until the proclamation of the Russian Republic in September 1917. At its height in the late 19th century, it covered about , roughl ...

. New species he described for the first time in the ''Flora Altaica'' include ''

Malus sieversii ''Malus sieversii'' is a wild apple. According to DNA analysis conducted in 2010, it is the primary ancestor of the domesticated apple, '' M. domestica''. Native to Central Asia, ''M. sieversii'' prefers warm and damp habitats. Its conserv ...

'' (as ''Pyrus sieversii''), the wild ancestor of the apple, and the

Siberian Larch ''Larix sibirica'', the Siberian larch or Russian larch, is a frost-hardy tree native to western Russia, from close to the Finnish border east to the Yenisei valley in central Siberia, where it hybridises with the Dahurian larch ''L. gmelinii ...

(''Larix sibirica''). The plant genera ''

Ledebouria ''Ledebouria'' is a genus of African bulbous perennial herbs in the Asparagus family, Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae. Most members were previously part of the genus ''Scilla''. A number of species are grown by cacti and succulent enthusias ...

'' (in the Asparagus family,

Asparagaceae Asparagaceae (), known as the asparagus family, is a family of flowering plants, placed in the order Asparagales of the monocots. The family name is based on the edible garden asparagus, '' Asparagus officinalis''. This family includes both ...

), and '' Ledebouriella'' (from the family

Apiaceae Apiaceae () or Umbelliferae is a family of mostly aromatic flowering plants named after the type genus ''Apium,'' and commonly known as the celery, carrot, or parsley family, or simply as umbellifers. It is the 16th-largest family of flowering p ...

) are named in his honor.

Personal life

Ledebour was the son of the

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Johann Ledebour and his mother was Anna Maria Hagemann.

External links

Vascular Plant Flora of Estonia Summary
Includes biographical details.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ledebour, Carl Friedrich von 1786 births 1851 deaths 19th-century German botanists Corresponding members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences People from Stralsund Academic staff of the University of Tartu German people of Swedish descent

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