Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin
See also: Gmelin
Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin , born the July 4th 1744 with Tübingen and dead the July 27th 1774 with Achmetkent (the Crimea), is a Médecin, Naturaliste and German Explorateur .
Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin belongs to a dynasty of scientists. His/her father, Johann Conrad Gmelin, are surgeon and pharmacist with Tübingen. His/her uncle is Johann Georg Gmelin (1709-1755), chemist and botanist, and his cousin, Johann Friedrich Gmelin (1748-1804), naturalist and chemist.
He obtains at 18 years, in 1763, a title of doctor of medicine to the Université of Leyde. It is during its stay with the Netherlands that it starts to be interested in the Algue S navy. It leaves to teach, in 1766, the Natural history with the Academy of Science of Saint-Pétersbourg. The following year, it takes part in a voyage of scientific exploration of the area of the river Don, the Volga and Caspian Sea. On the way of the return, it is captured by the Khan Usmey of Kahïtakes and dies in detention of Dysenterie before its ransom is not paid. It was only 29 years old.
Gmelin is the author of Historia Fucorum (1768), one of the first treaties devoted to the Biologie marinades. Its descriptions of algae follow the system of binomial nomenclature linnéenne. Its illustrations of algae are of a large smoothness. Its collections having been lost, the specimens which it describes do not exist any more.
The report of its voyages is published under the title of Reise durch Russland zur untersuchung DER drey natur-reiche (1770-1784, in 4 volumes); last volume is published by Peter Simon Pallas (1741-1811).
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