Boris Ivanovich Pomerantsev

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Boris Ivanovich Pomeranzew ( Russian Борис Иванович Померанцев ., English transcription Boris Ivanovich Pomerantsev ; born 18 . Jul / March 3, 1903 greg. In St. Petersburg , Russian Empire , died on 22. June 1939 ) was a Soviet Acarologe and Parasitologist . His specialties were ticks and the zoonoses they transmit .

Life

Boris I. Pomeranzew grew up in Saratow in the Russian Oblast of the same name , where he also received his school education. After he lost his father at the age of 17, he had to take on a number of temporary jobs in addition to school, as an agricultural worker, dock worker, sailor on the Volga and musician in a military band. In 1920 he left school and began studying at the Faculty of Hydraulic Engineering at Saratov State University . When the faculty was closed, Pomerantsev had to interrupt his studies and could only continue it in 1924 at the Institute of Applied Zoology and Phytopathology of the Leningrad Polytechnic University . There he dealt with the piroplasmosis of domestic cattle and the ticks as their vectors in the Novgorod Oblast . Pomeranzew graduated in 1929 as an entomologist specializing in ticks .

From 1930 to 1934 Pomeranzew worked in the All-Union Institute for Plant Protection. In 1934 he received an invitation to the Department of Parasitology of the Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in Moscow. Since he had already acquired extensive knowledge of the ecology of ticks, Pomeranzew dealt primarily with the morphology and taxonomy of these parasites. He prepared a large monograph of the Soviet Union's ticks and traveled to the Far East of the USSR in 1939 to investigate an outbreak of the then little-researched early summer meningoencephalitis . In his field studies in the taiga, he was many times from the taiga tick ( Ixodes persulcatus razor), a main vector of infection. Despite a subsequent vaccination, Pomerantsev fell ill and died on June 22, 1939.

Pomerantsev died before he could complete his doctorate . His most important publications, including several first descriptions , appeared only after his death. Several of his works have been translated into English and published on behalf of Harry Hoogstraal and his staff at NAMRU-3 in Cairo. His large monograph Ixodid Ticks (Ixodidae) was edited by George Anastos . With the first descriptions of Dermacentor pomerantzevi Serdyukova , 1951 and Ixodes pomeranzevi Serdyukova , 1941 Pomeranzew was posthumously honored for his scientific work.

Initial descriptions (selection)

publication

  • BI Pomerantsev: Ixodid ticks (Ixodidae) . Translated by Alena Elbl. Ed .: George Anastos. American Institute of Biological Sciences, Washington, DC 1959.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Igor Uspensky: Pomerantsev, Boris Ivanovich . In: Encyclopedia of Entomology. Second edition . Volume 4th SZ. Springer Science + Business Media, Dordrecht 2008, ISBN 978-1-4020-6242-1 , p. 2998-2999 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-1-4020-6359-6_3068 .
personal data
SURNAME Pomeranzew, Boris Ivanovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pomeranzew, Boris I .; Помера́нцев, Борис Иванович (Russian name); Pomerantsev, Boris Ivanovich (English transcription)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet acarologist and parasitologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 1939