Afanassi Semjonowitsch Rogowitsch
Afanassi Semjonowitsch Rogowitsch , Russian Афанасий Семёнович Рогович , scientific also Athanasi Semenovich Rogowicz , (born January 18, 1812 in Rogowle, Chernigov Governorate ; † 1878 ) was a botanist , geologist and paleontologist . Its botanical author's abbreviation is "Rogow." Or "ROG."
Rogowitsch was of noble origin and attended high school in Chernihiv . He studied natural sciences at the Vladimir University in Kiev , graduating in 1838, where he was awarded a gold medal. After that he was a teacher of mathematics in high schools in Kiev. In 1843 he was on a trip abroad to Germany, Italy, Switzerland, France, England and Sweden to study geology and mineralogy in particular. From 1847 he held lectures on botany at his old university and in 1852 was given the supervision of its herbarium and its botanical garden. In 1850 he made a thesis in geology and mineralogy on fossil fish in his native Ukraine and in 1853 he received his doctorate in natural sciences. In the same year he explored the flora of his homeland while traveling and became associate professor and, from 1855, full professor of botany at Vladimir University. In 1868 he retired (with the rank of Councilor of State) at the university. He was a member of the Imperial Russian Mineralogical Society and the Kiev Society of Naturalists.
Numerous publications on the flora of the Kiev province, their palaeontology and geology as well as archaeological work come from him. Among other things, he also published a dictionary of popular plant names from south-west Russia and Ukraine. His work on fossil fish from the Kiev province received the Demidov Prize in 1862 .
Web links
Author entry and list of the described plant names for Afanassi Semjonowitsch Rogowitsch at the IPNI
supporting documents
- Russian biography
- Rudolf Schubert, Günther Wagner: Botanical dictionary - plant names and botanical technical terms . 12th edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-8252-1476-1 .
- O. Schmeil: Flora of Germany and neighboring countries. 89th edition, Quelle and Meyer 1993; P. 214
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| SURNAME | Rogowitsch, Afanassi Semjonowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Рогович, Афанасий Семенович (Russian spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Botanist and paleontologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 18, 1812 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rogowle, Chernigov Governorate , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1878 |