Nikolai Alexejewitsch Severzow
Nikolai Severtzov ( Russian Николай Алексеевич Северцов ; born October 24 . Jul / 5. November 1827 greg. In Voronezh Governorate , † January 26 jul. / 7. February 1885 greg. On Don ) was a Russian zoologist and explorer.
Severzow studied science in Moscow . In 1857/58 he undertook an expedition to the Aralocaspic lowlands . He also took part in an expedition to Tashkent and explored the Tianschan Mountains to the sources of the Syr-Darja in 1867/68 . In 1874 he was a member of the great Amu Darja expedition and led an expedition to the Pamir in 1877/78 .
Severzow died in 1885 by drowning in a tributary of the Don. The Black-breasted grouse ( Bonasa sewerzowi ) of the subfamily of the Grouse is named after him. The same applies to Mount Severtsev in Antarctica.
His son Alexei Nikolayevich Severzow was also a zoologist and paleontologist.
Works
- Travels in Turkistan (St. Petersburg 1873, 2 vol .; partly translated into Petermanns Mitteilungen, supplementary booklet 42 and 43, Gotha 1875).
- On the question about the segmentation of the head mesoderm in Pelobates fuscus in Bulletin de la Société impériale des naturalistes de Moscou , Vol. VI, Moscow 1892.
Web links
- Literature by and about Nikolai Alexejewitsch Severzow in the catalog of the German National Library
- Meyers-1905
- Article Nikolai Alexejewitsch Severzow in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Severzow, Nikolai Alexejewitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Северцов, Николай Алексеевич (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian zoologist and explorer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 5, 1827 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Voronezh Governorate |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 7, 1885 |
| Place of death | on the Don (Sea of Azov) |