Kliment Arkadjewitsch Timirjasew

Kliment Arkadjewitsch Timirjasew

Kliment Arkadjewitsch Timirjasew , Russian Климент Аркадьевич Тимирязев , English transcription Kliment Arkadievich Timiryazev, (born June 3, 1843 in Saint Petersburg , † April 28, 1920 in Moscow ) was a Russian biologist and plant physiologist.

His father Arkady Semjonowitsch Timirjasew was a politician, his mother Adelaida Bode was English. He studied at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the University of Saint Petersburg with the degree in 1866. After his first scientific publications in 1868 he was studying abroad in Germany (among others Robert Bunsen , Gustav Robert Kirchhoff , Hermann von Helmholtz ) and France (among others at Marcellin Berthelot ). In 1871 he returned to Russia, received his doctorate in botany in 1871 with a thesis on the spectral analysis of chlorophyll and completed his habilitation in 1875 (Russian doctorate) on photosynthesis. He then was a professor at the Petrov Academy of Agriculture until it was closed in 1892. He also taught at Lomonosov University as an associate professor from 1877 and from 1884 to 1911 and 1917 to 1920 as a full professor.

He was a leading exponent of Darwin's theory of evolution in Russia and visited Darwin in England in 1877. His main research area was photosynthesis and pioneered the use of greenhouses for agricultural research in Russia in the early 1870s. He has received several honorary doctorates (Cambridge, Geneva, Glaskow, Kharkiv, Saint Petersburg).

In 1890 he became a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and in 1911 a Fellow of the Royal Society . In 1903 he gave the Croonian Lecture .

The Timirjasew Academy of Agriculture and a Museum of Biology in Moscow were named after him in the Soviet Union , as were several places called Timirjasewo . A lunar crater and a metro station in Moscow are named after him, and his statue stands on Tverskoy Boulevard in Moscow. In addition, the Nunatak is named after Gora Timirjazeva in Antarctica. His son Arkadi Klimentjewitsch Timirjasew (1880–1955) was a Soviet philosopher.

Fonts (selection)

• Charles Darwin and his teaching (Russian), 2nd edition 1883
• Louis Pasteur , 1896
• Plant and Solar Energy (Russian), 1897
• Agriculture and Physiology of Plants (Russian), 1906
• The main hallmarks of the history of the development of biology in the 19th century (Russian), 1908
• The life of the plant. Ten popular lectures , Moscow 1958, Archives (Russian edition, 2nd edition 1885)

Web links

Commons : Kliment Timiryazev  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Тимирязев Климент Аркадьевич , letopis.msu.ru (Russian)
• Entry in Great Soviet Encyclopedia (Russian)