Russian botanist (1780–1832).
Johann Friedrich Adam, later called Michael Friedrich Adams, and also Johannes Michael Friedrich Adams in full citation of botany discoveries (1780 in Moscow – 1 March 1838, in Vereya) was a botanist from St. Petersburg, Russian Empire. He studied from 1795–1796 in the medical school of St. Petersburg. In the years 1800–1802 he traveled across Transcaucasia in the entourage of Count Apollo Mussin-Pushkin (1760–1805). In 1805, he was part of a scientific team attached to the unsuccessful diplomatic mission of Count Yury Golovkin to China. After the failure of the mission, he and many of the oth