Anna Semyonovna Shchijan

Anna Semyonovna Schchijan ( Russian Анна Семёновна Шхиян , Armenian Աննա Սեմյոնի Շխիյան Anna Semjoni Schchijan * June 26 ^jul. / 9 July 1905 ^greg. In Tbilisi ; † 15. May 1990 in Yerevan ) was a Soviet botanist and university lecturer .

Life

Shchijan came from a family of teachers. Because of her enthusiasm for science , she studied at the Faculty of Agriculture of the Tbilisi State Polytechnic Institute, which later merged into the Tbilisi State University . In 1929, she went to Armenia to participate in the reforestation in the spa town Arsni in Hrazdan -Schlucht (23 km north of Yerevan, province of Kotayk ) in the Armenian highlands participate.

In 1933 Shchijan worked in the biology sector of the Transcaucasus branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Tbilisi, which in 1934 became part of the new botany institute. She led floristic and geobotanical expeditions throughout the Caucasus and worked out the systematics of species and families . Her teacher was Dmitri Ivanovich Sosnowski . She did a lot to regulate the agricultural activities of the people of Transcaucasia. This included the allocation of winter pastures in some Rajons of the Azerbaijani Soviet Socialist Republic , the investigation of the forests of Niederkartliens with the creation of maps and documentation of the vegetation there, and the investigation of the wild fruit forests in eastern Georgia . The results were published in an anthology on useful plants .

Schchijan's systematic studies were of particular importance. In 1944 she defended her candidate dissertation on the systematics and geography of the Caucasian representatives of grape hyacinths . She made an important contribution to the eight-volume work on the flora of Georgia (1941–1952). She defended her doctoral dissertation on the systematics of the Dipsacaceae in the Caucasus in 1974. She gave a lecture in Armenian on systematics and general biology at the natural science- geographic faculty of the Pushkin Institute for Education in Tbilisi.

From 1975 Shchijan lived in Yerevan and worked in the Department of Systematics and Geography of the Botany Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic (until autumn 1989).

The leek species Allium schchianae Ogan. was named after Shchijan in 1999.

Web links

International Plant Names Index (IPNI): Schchian, Anna S.
Literature by and about Anna Semjonovna Schchijan in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Catalog of the Russian National Library : Шхиян, Анна Семёновна

Individual evidence

↑ Оганезова Г.Г .: Анна Семёновна Шхиян (1905–1990) . In: Биологический журнал Армении . tape 43 , no. 7 , 1990, pp. 628–629 ( [1] [PDF; accessed January 7, 2020]).
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Манденова И.П .: Памяти Анны Семёновны Шхиян (July 9, 1905– May 15, 1990) . In: Флора, Растительность и растительные ресурсы Армении . No. 12 , 1999, p. 4-5 .
↑ Шхиян А. С .: Семейство Dipsacaceae ALJussieu на Кавказе: Автореферат ... докт. биолог. наук . Мецниереба, Tbilisi 1974.
↑ Allium schchianae Ogan. .

personal data
SURNAME	Shchijan, Anna Semyonovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Шхиян, Анна Семёновна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Soviet botanist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	July 9, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tbilisi
DATE OF DEATH	May 15, 1990
Place of death	Yerevan

[1] Оганезова Г.Г .: Анна Семёновна Шхиян (1905–1990) . In: Биологический журнал Армении . tape 43 , no. 7 , 1990, pp. 628–629 ( [1] [PDF; accessed January 7, 2020]).

[anna-2] Манденова И.П .: Памяти Анны Семёновны Шхиян (July 9, 1905– May 15, 1990) . In: Флора, Растительность и растительные ресурсы Армении . No. 12 , 1999, p. 4-5 .

[3] Шхиян А. С .: Семейство Dipsacaceae ALJussieu на Кавказе: Автореферат ... докт. биолог. наук . Мецниереба, Tbilisi 1974.

[4] Allium schchianae Ogan. .