Johann Amman,
Johannes Amman or
Иоганн Амман (22 December 1707 in
Schaffhausen – 14 December 1741 in
St Petersburg), 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 (now
Ukraine). 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.