Carl Bernhard von Trinius, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German botanist
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Place of Birth: Lutherstadt Eisleben, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
About Carl Bernhard von Trinius
- Carl Bernhard von Trinius (6 March 1778, Eisleben – 12 March 1844, St.
- Petersburg) was a German-born botanist and physician. He studied medicine at several universities, earning his medical doctorate at the University of Göttingen in 1802.
- In 1808, after time spent as a physician in Hasenpoth, he served as a personal physician to Antoinette, Duchess of Württemberg (née Princess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld) for the next 16 years.
- During this time period, he traveled extensively throughout Germany and Russia.
- In St.
- Petersburg, he became good friends to author Ernst Moritz Arndt.
- After the death of the duchess in 1824, he remained in St.
- Petersburg as an imperial physician, and along with a medical practice, he dealt with botanical concerns at the Academy of Sciences.From 1829 to 1833, he taught classes in natural sciences to the future Russian monarch, Czar Alexander II.
- In 1836–1838, he took an extended scientific journey to Berlin, Leipzig, Halle, Vienna, Munich and Dresden, a trip in which he studied various botanical collections.As a physician, he is known for his homeopathic approach to medicine (especially after 1830).
- As a botanist, Trinius was a specialist in grasses and described many species in his career, including Agrostis pallens, Cenchrus agrimonioides and Festuca subulata.
- The genus Trinia and species Trinia glauca are named after him.
- The so-called "Herbarium Trinii" (a collection of roughly 4000-5000 plants) was bequeathed to the botanical museum in St.
- Petersburg.He was the author of numerous papers in the field of botany.
- Among his better known publications was "Species graminum, iconibus et descriptionibus illustr." (Vol.
- I, 1828; Vol.
- II, 1829; Vol.
- III, 1836).
- After his death, a collection of Trinius' poetry was published as Gedichte ("Poems", Berlin 1848).
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