Alexei Nikolayevich Severzow

Severtsov on a Soviet postage stamp from 1951

Alexei Nikolajewitsch Severzow ( Russian Алексей Николаевич Северцов ; born September 11, 1866 in Moscow , † December 16, 1936 ibid) was a Russian zoologist and paleontologist .

He was the son of the zoologist and explorer Nikolai Alexejewitsch Severzow and attended a private grammar school before studying zoology at Lomonossow University from 1885 . After graduating in 1895, he worked at several research stations for marine biology, the Laboratoire de Banyuls-sur-Mer , the "Observatoire Océanologique" in Villefranche-sur-Mer and the Naples Zoological Station , as well as at the Universities of Kiel and Munich . After receiving his doctorate in 1898, he taught as professor of zoology from 1898 to 1902 at Dorpat University , from 1902 to 1911 at Kiev University and from 1911 to 1930 in Moscow, where he founded the Laboratory for Evolutionary Morphology in 1930.

Severzow initially dealt with comparative anatomy, especially the skull of lower vertebrates, and with the systematics of lower vertebrates. Later, over several decades, he developed a theory of evolution that went beyond the orthodox Darwinian theory of evolution, which also pursued the relationship between phylogeny and ontogeny originally discovered by Ernst Haeckel (phyloembryogeny and morphobiological theory of evolution).

He was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences . In 1926 he became a corresponding member of the Paleontological Society .

Fonts

• Collected works, 5 volumes, Moscow 1945 to 1951 (Russian)
• Études sur l'évolution des vertébrés inférieures. I. Morphologie du squelette et de la musculature de la tête des Cyclostomes, II. Organization des ancêtres des vertébrés actuels, ”in Archives russes d'anatomie, d'histologie et d'embryologie, 1, no. 1 (1916) and no 3 (1917) (a third part was published in Russian in 1924)
• Morphological laws of evolution, Jena 1931 (Russian edition Moscow, Leningrad 1939)

Web links

Commons : Alexei Nikolajewitsch Severzow  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Article in the Dictionary of Scientific Biography by E. Mizoryan