Ivan Ivanovich Lepyochin

Ivan Lepyochin

Ivan Lepyokhin ( Russian Иван Иванович Лепёхин , scientific. Transliteration Ivan Ivanovich Lepëchin ; born September 10, ^jul. / 21st September 1740 ^greg. In Saint Petersburg , † April 6 ^jul. / 18th April 1802 ^greg. ) Was a Russian doctor , botanist , zoologist and explorer . Its botanical author abbreviation is “ Lepech. "

Live and act

Lepjochin traveled the coastal area between the White Sea and the Kanin peninsula and explored the living conditions of the population as well as the fauna and flora.

Honors

The plant genera Lepechinia Willd. from the family of mint (Lamiaceae) and Lepechiniella Popov from the family of Borage Family (Boraginaceae) have been named in his honor. He is also the namesake for the Lepjochin Glacier in Antarctica.

Works

Mr. Iwan Lepechin, the doctor's art doctor and the Academy of Sciences at Petersburg Adjunctus, diary of the trip through different provinces of the Russian Empire. Translated from the Russian by Christian Heinrich Hase. In Richter's bookstore, Altenburg, 1774–1783. Digitized

literature

Herbert Scurla (ed.): Beyond the stone gate. Expedition of German researchers through Siberia in the 18th and 19th centuries. 2nd Edition. Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1965.

Web links

Elite and popular education in the Tsarist Empire during the 18th and first half of the 19th century by Jan Kusber
SUB Goettingen
Ivan Lepjochin, the doctor and botanist ( Memento from October 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
Author entry and list of the plant names described for Iwan Iwanowitsch Lepjochin at the IPNI
Article Iwan Iwanowitsch Lepjochin in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)

Individual evidence

^ Scurla, page 540.
↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]
↑ Robert Zander : Zander hand dictionary of plant names . Ed .: Fritz Encke , Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold . 13th, revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5 .

personal data
SURNAME	Lepyochin, Ivan Ivanovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lepechin, Ivan Ivanovich; Lepechin, Ivan Ivanovich; Лепёхин, Иван Иванович (Russian); Lepëchin, Ivan Ivanovič (scientific transliteration)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian doctor, botanist, zoologist and explorer
DATE OF BIRTH	September 21, 1740
PLACE OF BIRTH	St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH	April 18, 1802
Place of death	St. Petersburg

[1] Scurla, page 540.

[Burkhardt2018-2] Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]

[3] Robert Zander : Zander hand dictionary of plant names . Ed .: Fritz Encke , Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold . 13th, revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5 .