Oleg Polunin

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Oleg Vladimirovitch Polunin (Олег Владимирович Полунин; November 1914 in Reading , Berkshire , United Kingdom ; † July 1985 in Godalming , Surrey , United Kingdom) was an English botanist .

Polunin received his education from Magdalen College , Oxford . He later taught at the Charterhouse School in Godalming , Surrey for over 30 years . He devoted his time to writing popular identification books for plants in Europe and the Himalayas. His most famous books: "Flowers of Europe", "Flowers of the Mediterranean" and "Trees and Bushes of Europe" have been translated into German and reprinted several times. Polunin made many journeys in search of plants. He was one of the first to use photography for his books and discovered several types of plants. In 1983 he received the HH Bloomer Award (for amateur researchers) from the Linnean Society of London .

family

His two brothers were also scientists:

  • Nicholas Polunin (1909–1997) was an Arctic explorer and environmental activist and botanist
  • Ivan Polunin (1920–2010) was a doctor, photographer and ethnographer.

Fonts

  • Flowers of the Mediterranean (Chatto & Windus, 1967) - Flowers on the Mediterranean , BLV, Munich 1970
  • Flowers of Europe: a field guide (Oxford University Press, 1969) - Plants of Europe , BLV, Munich 1971
  • A Concise Flowers of Europe (Oxford University Press, 1972)
  • Flowers of South West Europe (Oxford University Press, 1973, ISBN 0-19-217625-0 )
  • Trees and Bushes of Europe (Oxford University Press, 1976) - Trees and shrubs in Europe , BLV, Munich u. a. 1977
  • Flowers of Greece and the Balkans (Oxford University Press, 1980, ISBN 0-19-217626-9 )
  • Flowers of the Himalaya (Oxford University Press, 1985)
  • A Guide to the Vegetation of Britain and Europe (Oxford University Press, 1985, ISBN 0-19-217713-3 )
  • Concise Flowers of the Himalaya (Oxford University Press, 1987)
  • Collins Photoguide to Wild Flowers of Britain and Northern Europe (Collins, 1988, ISBN 0-00-219709-X )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Recipient of the HH Bloomer Award ( memento of the original from October 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.linnean.org
personal data
SURNAME Polunin, Oleg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oleg Vladimirovitch Polunin (full name); Полунин, Олег Владимирович (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English botanist
DATE OF BIRTH November 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Reading , Berkshire , United Kingdom
DATE OF DEATH July 1985
Place of death Godalming , Surrey , United Kingdom