Andrei Wassiljewitsch Martynow

Andrei Vasilyevich Martynov ( Russian Андрей Васильевич Мартынов ; born August 9 ^{. Jul} / 21st August  1879 ^greg. In Ryazan ; †  29. January 1938 in Moscow ) was a Russian paleontologist, zoologist and entomologist. He is considered the founder of paleoentomology in Russia.

Martynow was a curator at the Zoological Museum of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and a specialist in caddis flies , stone flies, and Gammaridae before turning to paleoentomology in the 1920s. He discovered numerous new sites, for example in the mountains of Karatau in southern Kazakhstan (insects from the Jura) and on the Kama river and in Tshekarda in the Urals (both from the Permian). In 1928 he lectured on fossil insects at the International Congress of Entomologists in Ithaca. In 1933 he received his habilitation ( Russian doctorate ) and became a professor. He headed the arthropods department at the Geological Museum, which later became a department of the Institute for Paleontology (PIN) of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Moscow, where he moved from Leningrad in 1936. At that time he was already seriously ill. His successor was Boris Borissowitsch Rodendorf , whom he brought to the institute in 1937.

In 1938 another treatise appeared on the paleontology of flying insects (Pterygota) (first part new winged birds , polyneoptera (like stone flies) and paleoptera (dragonflies, mayflies)), which should be the beginning of a representation of the entire insect.

literature

• Vladimir Ivanov, Alexandr Rasnitsyn: Andrei Vasilievich Martynov, Zoosymposia, Volume 10, 2016, pp. 029-047
• FM Carpenter, Andreas Vasilievitch Martynov, Psyche, Volume 45, 1983, pp. 80-83

Web links

• English biography
• Martynov, Andrej Vasiljevitsch , senckenberg.de