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Johann Georg Gmelin (
August 8,
1709 -
May 20,
1755) was a
German naturalist,
botanist and
geographer.
Gmelin was born in
Tübingen, the son of an
apothecary. He
was a gifted child and graduated with a
medical degree at the age of 18. In
1730 he travelled to
St Petersburg to lecture at the university, and in the following year was appointed professor of
chemistry and
natural history. At his suggestion,
Johann Amman left
Hans Sloane in London to take up a post in St Petersburg. The final two volumes of
Johann Christian Buxbaum's (1693-1730)
Centuria were published posthumously by Gmelin.
From
1733 to
1743 Gmelin made a journey of scientific exploration through
Siberia. He described the position of the
Yenisey river as a boundary between
Europe and
Asia and participated in measuring the lowest
temperature ever recorded at
Yeniseysk. He was also the first person to measure the fact that the level of the
Caspian Sea was below that of the
Mediterranean Sea.
Gmelin's major works were
Flora Sibirica (4 vols.,
1749-
1750) and
Reisen durch Sibirien (4 vols.,
1753). He spent his final years as
professor of
medicine at the
University of Tübingen, a post to which he was appointed in
1749.
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