Karl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794–1868)

German botanist and ethnologist. Assistant to the conservator of the Munich botanic garden, 1814. Accompanied the Austrian expedition to Brazil, 1817–20, returning with several thousand specimens for the botanic garden. Professor of botany, Munich, 1826; principal conservator of the botanic garden, institute, and collections, 1832. Secretary of the physiomathematical section of the Royal Bavarian Academy, Munich, 1840.