Johann Anton Weinmann (; 23 December 1782,

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- 5 August 1858, Pavlovsk) was a German

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who served as Inspector of the Gardens in

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, Russia. He published a ''Flora'' that is the basis of some binomial species identifications. Beginning in 1803, he was head gardener of the newly established botanical garden in

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; from 1823 he served as inspector of the garden of

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in Pavlovsk near St. Petersburg. He also studied fungi (being, for instance, the original author for the name ''Echinoderma acutesquamosum'') and his name is commemorated with the

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genera '' Weinmannioscyphus'' and '' Weinmannodora'', the latter genus being circumscribed by

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in 1849.

Published works

* ''Der botanische Garten der Kaiserlichen Universität zu Dorpat im Jahre 1810''. 1810 - The botanical garden of the Imperial

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in 1810. * "Elenchus plantarum horti Imperialis Pawlowsciensis et agri Petropolitani", St. Petersburg 1824. * "Hymeno- et Gasteromycetes hujusque in imperio Rossico observatas recensuit", St. Petersburg 1836. * "Enumeratio stirpium in agro Petropolitano sponte crescentium", St. Petersburg 1837.Русский Биографический Словарь: Вейнман I. А.
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List of plants described & co-described by Weinmann. 1782 births 1858 deaths Scientists from Würzburg People from the Prince-Bishopric of Würzburg 19th-century German botanists German emigrants to the Russian Empire 19th-century botanists from the Russian Empire Corresponding members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences 18th-century German botanists {{germany-botanist-stub