Apollinari Semjonowitsch Bondarzew

Apollinari Semjonowitsch Bondarzew ( Russian Аполлинарий Семёнович Бондарцев , also Appollinaris Semenovich Bondartsev; born August 5, 1877 in Kursk ; † November 24, 1968 in Leningrad ) was a Russian, later Soviet, botanist and herbalist, mycologist and mycologist. His botanical-mycological author's abbreviation is " Bondartsev ".

Life

After graduating from school in Kursk, Bondarzew studied from 1898 to 1903 at the Agricultural Department of the Riga Polytechnic Institute , where the botanist and mycologist Fyodor Vladimirovich Buchholtz had a major influence on his further mycological research. His first scientific work with the title " Fungal parasites of cultivated and wild plants in the vicinity of Riga " appeared as early as 1903 .

After initially working as an assistant to the district agronomist of Kursk, Bondarzew got a job in 1905 at the Phytopathological Station of the Botanical Main Garden in St. Petersburg, which was then headed by Arthur Louis Arthurovic de Jaczewski . In 1913 the phytopathological station of the St. Petersburg Botanical Garden became an independent department; Bondarzew was its director until it was integrated into the "Department of Spore Plants" of the Botanical Institute in 1931. Bondarzew also continued researching in the new institution until he retired from active work in 1964.

In 1934 Bondarzew was awarded the degree of Dr. awarded in biological sciences. In 1939 he was appointed professor.

Bondarzew's wife Wera Nikolajewna Bondarzewa-Monteverde (1889-1944) and his daughter Margarita Apollinarijewna Bondarzewa (* 1935) were or are mycologists.

research

As head of the phytopathological department of the Botanical Garden in Leningrad, Bondarzew also researched the fungal diseases of cultivated and field plants and their control. He has published, among other things, the books "Fungal diseases of useful plants and their control" (St. Petersburg, 1912) and "Diseases of plants" (Handbuch, Leningrad 1927). In 1914 he described a fungal disease on the flowers of the red clover in a paper . Other plant diseases that he devoted himself to are powdery mildew on hops and gooseberries , rust and smut fungi in cereals, as well as clubroot .

One of his research areas were wood-dwelling fungi, on which he reported in numerous papers, including as a co-author with Rolf Singer . As early as 1912 he published a work on fungi on trunks of different tree types in a trial area in Bryansk , in which he described three new species and reported on 115 species. In 1953, Bondarzew presented his work on the Porlinge in the European Soviet Union and the Caucasus , which was also published in an English translation in 1971.

Closely related to his research on the polypores are also his work on wood-destroying fungi in buildings, such as the dry rot . This problem was of great practical concern as these mushrooms were a major problem in Leningrad as a result of the blockade during World War II . Bondarzew acted as an expert and contributed significantly to educating the residents of the city about the ecology of dry rot and how to control it. In 1956 his color-illustrated " Aid Book for Determining House Sponges " was published.

In addition, Bondarzew dealt with the Myxomycetes and the Fungi imperfecti and described more than 30 new species from these groups.

Bondarzew is the author of over 200 scientific papers and more than 500 smaller communications. He has re-described more than 130 species or forms.

Honors

• Rolf Singer named after Bondarzew the Porling genus Bondarzewia , to which two species belong worldwide, in Europe the species Bondarzewia mesenterica ( Bergporling ).
• Order of the Red Labor Banner (1945)
• Order of Lenin (1954)
• Honored Scientist of the RSFSR (1958)

literature

• GRW Arnold (1969): AS Bondarzew (1877-1968). Westphalian mushroom letters 7 (5): 82-83
• Dörfelt, Heinrich and Heklau, Heike: The history of mycology. Einhorn-Verlag Eduard Dietenberger GmbH: Schwäbisch Gmünd. 1998

Fonts

• A new disease of the flowers of the red clover related to its fructification. Journ. bolestn. rest. VIII: 1-25. (Russian and German)
• Bondarzew, AS & Singer, R. 1941. On the systematics of the Polyporaceae. - Ann. mycol., 39: 43-65.
• Bondartsev, AS 1953. The Polyporaceae of the European USSR and Caucasia. Izdatelstvo Akademii Nauk SSSR, Moscow-Leningrad, 896 pp.