Boris Stefanov

Boris Stefanow, first row, second from left, 1930

Boris Stefanow , also Stefanoff , actually Boris Stefanow Popow , ( Bulgarian Борис Стефанов ; born June 8, 1894 in Sofia , † December 12, 1979 ibid) was a Bulgarian botanist . His botanical author abbreviation is “ Stef. ".

Life

Stefanov worked from 1954 to 1966 as the director of the Forestry Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences . He was a curator at the Herbarium of Sofia University.

In his scientific work he dealt with the flora of Bulgaria. He also devoted himself to questions relating to the historical and ecological geography of plants and to systematics, morphogenesis and physiology .

Honors

He was honored as a Hero of Socialist Labor , the Order of Georgi Dimitrov and the Dimitrov Prize . The plant genus Stefanoffia H. Wolff from the umbelliferae family (Apiaceae) is named after him .

Works (selection)

Fitogeografski elementi v Bŭlgarija , Leipzig 1943
On the causes of variability and the possibilities for controlling the formation of form , 1965
Monograph of the genus Colchicum . 1926
With Nikolai Andreew Stojanow : Flore de la Bulgarie . 1924-1935; 2nd edition under the title Flora na Bulgarija 1933; 3rd edition 1948; 4th edition (additionally with B. Kitanov) under the title Flora bulgarica , 1966–1967.

literature

Stefanov, Boris . In: Taschenlexikon Bulgaria , Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig 1983, page 181.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymic 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 .
↑ ^a ^b Walter Erhardt among others: The great pikeperch. Encyclopedia of Plant Names . Volume 2, page 2057. Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2008. ISBN 978-3-8001-5406-7

Web links

Author entry and list of the described plant names for Boris Stefanow at the IPNI

personal data
SURNAME	Stefanov, Boris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Popow, Boris Stefanow (real name); Стефанов, Борис (Bulgarian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Bulgarian botanist
DATE OF BIRTH	June 8, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sofia
DATE OF DEATH	December 12, 1979
Place of death	Sofia

[Burkhardt_2018-1] Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymic 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 .

[Zander2008-2] Walter Erhardt among others: The great pikeperch. Encyclopedia of Plant Names . Volume 2, page 2057. Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2008. ISBN 978-3-8001-5406-7