Johann Amman

Johann Amman, Johannes Amman or Иоганн Амман (22 December 1707 – 14 December 1741) was a Swiss-Russian botanist, a member of the Royal Society and professor of botany at the Russian Academy of Sciences at St Petersburg.

He is best known for his Stirpium Rariorum in Imperio Rutheno Sponte Provenientium Icones et Descriptiones published in 1739 with descriptions of some 285 plants from Eastern Europe and Ruthenia (now Ukraine).

Sloane was founder of the Chelsea Physic Garden and originator of the British Museum.

Amman went on to St Petersburg at the invitation of Johann Georg Gmelin (1709–1755) and became a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, regularly sending interesting plants, such as Gypsophila paniculata, back to Sloane.

[4] Amman founded the Botanical Garden of the Academy of Sciences on Vasilyevsky Island in St Petersburg in 1735.