Georgi Fyodorowitsch Morozov

Georgi Fedorovich Morozov , Russian Георгий Фёдорович Морозов , (* 26 December 1866 ^{. Jul} / 7. January  1867 ^greg. In St. Petersburg ; † 9. May 1920 in Simferopol ) was a Russian forest scientist, known for contributions to the biogeography and ecology of forests .

Life

Morosow, whose father was a merchant and on the city council, was initially a professional officer and was stationed in the fortress of Daugavpils as an artillery lieutenant. Through contact with young intellectuals who were forced to exile there (especially one young woman, ON Zandrok), he decided to give up his military career and studied agriculture and forestry in Saint Petersburg. The decision led to a break with his father. Of great influence on Morosow was the anatomist PF Lesgaft , who had been dismissed from the university because of left political views and gave private lessons and who was a staunch Darwinist. In particular, this concerned the complex relationship between form and function in animals and their interaction with the environment. He graduated in 1894 and worked as a forester and forestry teacher in a reservation in the Voronezh governorate . The main problems at that time were periods of drought. After the first publications he was sent to Germany to study in 1896 (Munich, Eberswalde) and after his return he headed a forest research station. He applied the findings of the soil science of Vasily Dokuchayev to forests and published about it in 1899, which made him known in Russia as a forestry expert. In 1901 he became a professor of forestry in Saint Petersburg. In 1902, on the initiative of Morosow, forestry was divided into two departments, a classic direction and a new direction, which dealt with reforestation and ecological measures in forests. From 1904 to 1919 he published the Forest Journal (Лесной журнал). He also advocated and directed academic agriculture courses for women.

In 1917 a nervous disorder (paralysis) forced him to recover to Yalta in the Crimea. From 1918 he gave lectures at the newly founded University in Simferopol.

After the early death of his girlfriend ON Zandrok from diphtheria , he married her sister Lidia Nikolajewna.

Fonts

• Soil and Forest Management, in: Pochvovedenie (Почвоведение), 1899, No. 1 (Russian)
• Introduction to Forest Biology (Theory of Forest Ecology, Volume 1), Saint Petersburg 1912 (Russian)
  • later as: Teaching of the forest 7th edition Moscow 1949 (Russian)
• Science of the forest. Selected works, 3 volumes, Moscow, Dokuchayev Boden Institute, 1994 (Russian)

In 1920 an abridged version of his main work on the forest was published (Science of the Forest, Simferopol), later a more complete version by his student VV Matreninski.

literature

• SR Mikulinsky: Morozov, Georgy Fedorovich , in Dictionary of Scientific Biography
• VK Teplyakov, YP Kuzmichev, David M. Baumgartner, Richard L. Everett: A history of russian forestry and its leaders , 1998, pp. 33–42 (Georgiy Fyodorovich Morozov)