Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer

Friedrich Ernst Ludwig Fischer was a Russian botanist, born in the Holy Roman Empire. He was director of the St Petersburg botanical garden from 1823 to 1850.
In 1804 he obtained his medical doctorate from the University of Halle, afterwards working as director of Count Razumoffsky's botanical garden in Gorenki. In 1808 he produced a catalogue of plants of the garden. In 1823, he was appointed director of the imperial botanical garden in St. Petersburg by Alexander I. Here, he was involved with establishing a herbarium and library, as well as the planning of numerous scientific expeditions into the interior of Russia. During his final years, he served as a medical councillor for the Ministry of the Interior.
In 1815, he was elected a corresponding member of the Royal [Swedish Academy of Sciences]. In 1841, his status was changed to that of foreign member.

Selected works

Catalogue du Jardin des plantes de S.E. Monsieur le comte Alexis de Razoumoffsky... à Gorenki près de Moscou, 1808–1812.
Beitrag zur botanischen Systematik, die Existenz der Monocotyledoneen und dem Polycotyledoneen betreffend, 1812 - Contributions to plant systematics, the existence of Monocotyledon, etc.
Enumeratio plantarum novarum a CI. Schrenk lectarum, 1841.
Jardin de Saint-Pétersbourg, 1846..