Alexander Alexandrovich Jelenkin
Alexander Alexandrowitsch Jelenkin ( Russian Александр Александрович Еленкин) , * 1873 in Warsaw ; † 1942 in Kazan and Saint Petersburg , in publications mostly Alexander Elenkin paraphrased , was a Russian Lichenologe (lichen-watchers). He graduated from the University of Warsaw in botany in 1893. In 1898 he became a research assistant there. In 1899 he was appointed curator and director of the cryptogam department at the Imperial Botanical Garden in Saint Petersburg. With the organizational merger of the Botanical Garden with the Botanical Institute in 1931, Jelenkin was appointed professor. He is considered the "father of Russian lichenology".
The author abbreviation Elenkin is used when this person is meant as the author of the first description of a previously unknown living being.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Elenkin, Alexander (Aleksander) Alexandrovich (1873-1942) , JSTOR Global Plants, accessed October 30, 2019
- ↑ G. Sayre, Cryptogamae exsiccatae , Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden, 1969, 19 (1), pp. 121-122
- ^ SG Shetler, The Komarov Botanical Institute, 1967
- ↑ FA Stafleu and RS Cowan, Taxonomic Literature , 1976–1998
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| SURNAME | Jelenkin, Alexander Alexandrovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Еленкин, Александр Александрович (Russian); Elenkin, Alexander |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian lichenologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1873 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1942 |
| Place of death | Kazan or Saint Petersburg |