Boris Konstantinowitsch Schischkin

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Boris Konstantinovich Shishkin ( Russian Борис Константинович Шишкин * April 7 jul. / 19th April  1886 greg. In Kukarka ; † 21st March 1963 in Leningrad ) was a Russian-Soviet botanist and since 1943 corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Schischk. "

Live and act

In 1911 Schischkin graduated from the Medical Faculty of Tomsk University , where he taught from 1913 to 1915. Between 1915 and 1918 he worked as a military doctor .

From 1918 to 1925 he headed the botanical department of the Caucasian Museum in Tbilisi , from 1925 to 1930 he was a professor at Tomsk University, where he held a chair for morphology and plant systematics. From 1930 he was an employee of the Botanical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (from 1938 to 1949 its director) and from 1945 to 1958 at the same time professor at the University of Leningrad and from 1946 to 1963 Vice-President of the Botanical Society of the USSR. Shishkin's herbarium contained more than thirty thousand sheets, most of which are kept in Tomsk.

His main works deal with the systematics of flowering plants (especially from the carnation family , umbelliferae and sunflower ) and plant geography ( Siberia , Transcaucasia ). He was the organizer and editor of numerous collective works, including the flora of the USSR ( Флора СССР ) The Flora the Byelorussian SSR ( Флора БССР ), the flora of the Leningrad Oblast ( Флора Ленинградской области ) and The Flora of Turkmenistan ( Флора Туркмении ).

Honors

Schischkin was awarded the State Prize of the USSR (1952), the Order of Lenin and other medals.

He was an honorary member of the Société botanique de France and the Botanical Society of Washington .

The plant genera Schischkinia Iljin and Borkonstia Ignatov from the sunflower family (Asteraceae), Neoschischkinia Tzvelev from the sweet grass family (Poaceae) and Schischkinella Steenis ( synonym of Gastrocalyx ) from the carnation family (Caryophyllaceae) were named in his honor. In addition, a number of species bear his name as a specific epithet .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .

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personal data
SURNAME Schischkin, Boris Konstantinowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shishkin, Boris Konstantinovich (English transcription); Шишкин, Борис Константинович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-Soviet botanist
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Kukarka
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 1963
Place of death Leningrad