Carl Johann Maximowicz (Karl Ivanovich Maksimovich) (Carl Maximowitsch) (1827–91)

Russian botanist. Studied botany at Dorpat (Tartu), 1845–50. Assistant director, botanic gardens, Dorpat, 1851. Keeper of the herbarium, St Petersburg, 1852; director of the botanic garden, 1864; botanic museum, 1870. Made collecting trips to Amur, 1853–7; China, Korea, 1859–60; Japan, 1860–64. Compiled floras of Japan and other Asiatic regions.