Boris Alexejewitsch Fedchenko

Boris Fedchenko

Boris Alexejewitsch Fedtschenko ( Russian Борис Алексеевич Федченко , also transcribed Fedtchenko; * December 27, 1872 in Leipzig , † September 29, 1947 in Leningrad ) was a Russian botanist. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " B.Fedtsch. "

Fedtschenko was the son of the botanist Olga Alexandrovna Fedtschenko and the biologist Alexei Pawlowitsch Fedtschenko , who died in 1873 on Mont Blanc , so that he was raised by his mother alone. He studied natural sciences and especially botany at Lomonosov University and in 1891 undertook the first of many botanical study trips with his mother (to the Urals). They also toured Central Asia and the Pamir Mountains (1901). From the end of the 1890s he was at the Botanical Garden in Saint Petersburg and from 1902 headed its herbarium, to which he also added his own collections. He also edited various scientific journals of the Botanical Garden. In the 1920s he continued his botanical expeditions in Central Asia. In 1931 the Botanical Garden was merged with the Botanical Museum and its director Wladimir Leontjewitsch Komarow took over the management. He also took over the project, initiated by Fedchenko, of a book series that was supposed to describe the flora of the Soviet Union, which was completed in 1964 and in which around 17,500 species were described in 30 volumes.

Fonts

• with Olga Fedtschenko: Plantea asiae mediae, 1906 to 1916
• Flora of Yakutsia 1907 (Russian, Jakutskaja Flora)
• with Olga Fedtschenko: Conspectus Florae Turkestanicae 1913
• with Alexander Fjodorowitsch Flerow : Flora of European Russia, 1908 to 1910 (Russian)
• with Alexander F. Flerow: Flora of Asiatic Russia, 1912 to 1924 (Russian)
• Flora der Oka, three parts, 1907, 1908, 1910 (Russian)
• with Boris Konstantinowitsch Schischkin : Flora Rossiae austro-orientalis, 1927 to 1938

Web links

• JSTOR Global Plants, biography, English
• Author entry and list of the described plant names for Boris Alexejewitsch Fedtschenko at the IPNI