Abstract
This paper commemorates the 250th anniversary of birth of Grigorii Ivanovich Fischer von Waldheim, a German naturalist who came to Moscow in 1804 at the invitation of the trustee of Moscow University M. N. Muravyov to take the chair in natural history and the post of director of the University Museum of Natural History. The paper analyzes the historiography on Fischer von Waldheim and recounts the circumstances of his invitation to Russia. Special attention is given to his fifty-year-long work in Russia and his still underestimated contributions to the development and institutionalization of natural sciences, and the establishment of natural history education at Moscow University and Moscow Medico-Surgical Academy.
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