List of Famous people with last name Amman

Hanery Amman

Hanspeter Ammann

First Name Hanery

Born on November 2, 1952

Died on December 30, 2017 (aged 65)

Born in Switzerland, Canton of Bern

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Johann Amman

First Name Johann

Last Name Amman

Born on December 22, 1707

Died on December 4, 1741 (aged 33)

Born in Switzerland, Canton of Schaffhausen

Johann Amman, Johannes Amman or Иоганн Амман, was a Swiss-Russian botanist, a member of the Royal Society and professor of botany at the Russian Academy of Sciences at St Petersburg. He is best known for his Stirpium Rariorum in Imperio Rutheno Sponte Provenientium Icones et Descriptiones published in 1739 with descriptions of some 285 plants from Eastern Europe and Ruthenia. The plates are unsigned, though an engraving on the dedicatory leaf of the work is signed "Philipp Georg Mattarnovy", a Swiss-Italian engraver, Filippo Giorgio Mattarnovi (1716-1742), who worked at the St. Petersburg Academy.

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