page_title: Nicolai Anders von Hartwiss
section_title: Exploration
hierarchical_section_title: Nicolai Anders von Hartwiss / Exploration
caption_attribution_description: Quercus hartwissiana, Buchengewächse (Fagaceae) - Türkei/Türkiye/Turkey: Sakarya Prov./Sakarya ili, Sinanoğlu SW Karasu
context_page_description: Nicolai Anhorn von Hartwiss Николай Андерс фон, де Гартвис, Николай Андреевич; was a Livonian-born, Baltic German, Russian botanist, plant explorer and plant breeder. His education at the university in Tartu was interrupted by the Napoleonic Wars 1812–1818 when he served in the Russian army. Afterwards he worked on his father's estate and by 1824 was living in Riga and had a collection of 500 varieties of fruit trees and roses. He was then appointed to the Russian Imperial Botanical Garden at Nikita where he served as a director for the rest of his career. He is remembered for his plant collection explorations of Georgia and the Crimea, and for the breeding of roses.
context_section_description: Von Hartwiss collected plants in Georgia and the Crimea. Some species were named by him, some named after him. "Three long expeditions [were made] to the Caucasus in search of new ornamental plants for the Crimea … Caucasian fir, spruce, … Caucasian basswood, rhododendrons, azaleas and other flowering shrubs."
caption: Quercus hartwissiana, named after von Hartwiss by Steven, first director of the Nikita Gardens.
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