Johannes Theodor Schmalhausen

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Johannes Theodor Schmalhausen

Johannes Theodor Schmalhausen , Russian Иван Фёдорович Шмальгаузен , Russian Transliteration Ivan Fedorovich Schmalhausen , (born April 3, jul. / 15. April  1849 greg. In Saint Petersburg , † April 7 jul. / 19th April  1894 greg. In Kiev ) was a Russian botanist and paleobotanist of German descent . Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ Schmalh. "

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Schmalhausen, whose father was a librarian at the Russian Academy of Sciences , studied botany at the University of Saint Petersburg with a master's degree in 1874. For a botanical essay, he received the university's gold medal and was chosen for a professorial career and from 1874 to 1876 two years sent abroad (Strasbourg, Zurich, Vienna, Prague, Munich, Berlin, visiting the Alps, northern Italy and southern France). In 1877 he became a conservator at the Herbarium of the Imperial Botanical Garden in Saint Petersburg and received his habilitation (Russian doctorate).

From 1878 he was associate professor at the Vladimir University of Kiev and later professor of botany and director of the botanical garden in Kiev .

In 1893 he became a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In addition to Russian, he also published in German.

His youngest son was the zoologist and evolutionary biologist Iwan Iwanowitsch Schmalhausen (1884–1963).

Honors

The composites genus Schmalhausenia C. Winkl. is named in his honor.

Fonts

  • Flora of Southwest Russia, Kiev 1886 (Russian)
  • Flora Central and South Russia, the Crimea and the North Caucasus, Kiev 1895 to 1897 (Russian)
  • Short textbook of botany, Kiev 1887, 2nd edition 1899 (Russian)
  • Contributions to the knowledge of the milky juice containers of plants, 1877 (dissertation)
  • Contributions to the Jura flora of Russia, 1879.
  • Contributions to the tertiary flora of South-West Russia, 1883.
  • Tertiary plants of the island of New Siberia, 1890
  • The plant remains of the Artinskian and Permian deposits in the east of European Russia, Treatise of the Geological Committee 1887
  • About tertiary plants from the valley of the Buchtorma river at the foot of the Altai Mountains, Palaeontographica 1887, 181–216

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Rudolph Trautvetter and Johann Heinrich Hochmuth on trips to Kiev; Retrieved January 3, 2015
  2. ↑ 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 .
personal data
SURNAME Schmalhausen, Johannes Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Шмальгаузен, Иван Фёдорович (Russian); Schmalhausen, Iwan Fjodorowitsch (ru-latn)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian botanist and paleobotanist
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1894
Place of death Kiev