Adelbert von Chamisso

Louis Charles Adélaïde de Chamissot was born in 1781 at the château of Boncourt, in Champagne. Driven out by the Revolution, his family settled in 1796 in Berlin, where he became a page to the queen of Prussia, then served in the Prussian army from 1798 to 1807 and took the name Adelbert von Chamisso. He then turned to the natural sciences and took part as botanist, from 1815 to 1818, in the voyage around the world of the Russian ship Rurik. On his return, he became curator at the Berlin botanical garden and a member of the Academy of Sciences. He died in Berlin in 1838.

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