Herbert Gense
Herbert Gense , Russian Герберт Иванович Гензе transcribed Gerbert Ivanovich Gense , (born May 18 jul. / 31 May 1904 greg. In Saratov , Russian Empire ; † 4. June 1998 in Germany ) was a Russian geneticist and selection research .
Life
The family belonged to the German minority in the Russian Empire. She owned a great estate in Saratov on the Volga. Gense's father was already in contact with the Russian plant breeder Ivan W. Michurin when he was a child . Herbert Gense graduated from an agricultural college in his hometown and was fluent in both German and French. At the age of 18 he began to work on the experimental fields of the agricultural station in Saratow and soon met the highly respected geneticist and botanist Nikolai I. Wawilow , who introduced him to the teaching of genetics.
After the Great Patriotic War , Gense moved to the Siberian city of Omsk . From 1965 to 1993 he managed the work in the so-called Dendrogarten, which was founded in 1938. Herbert Gense dealt with conifers, but especially with the blue spruce . For his specially created spruce (miraculous spruce), which was partly green and partly blue, he received the gold medal of recognition in Erfurt (IGA) in 1989. Furthermore, pyramidal silver poplars (Genze's poplars, also: Wawilow's memory) appeared through his genetic research . You can still find his plant creations in Omsk and other places where he worked.
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| SURNAME | Gense, Herbert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gense, Gerbert Ivanovich; Гензе, Герберт Иванович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian geneticist and selection researcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 31, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saratov , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 4, 1998 |
| Place of death | Germany |