K H Mertens

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Karl Heinrich Mertens (17/5/1796-18/9/1830)

Biography

Born May 1796, in Bremen, where his father Franz Carl Mertens was Professor of Botany.
Died September 1830 of typhoid, shortly after returning from an expedition to Iceland, at Kronstadt, St. Petersburg.
German medical doctor, botanist, who became Assistant at the Academy of St Petersburg. Explorer of Iceland, Arctic America & Russia.

Cape Mertens on the Chukotka Peninsula, Russia, was named for him.

See an account of the works of Franz Carl and Karl Heinrich Mertens in Phycological Newsletter Volume 41 No. 2, pages 4-7.

information included from the herbariaunited database

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references and external links

• Kent DH & Allen DE. 1984. British and Irish Herbaria. London.

Karl Heinrich Mertens in JSTOR