Olga Alexandrovna Fedchenko
Olga Alexandrovna Fedtschenko ( Russian Ольга Александровна Федченко , also transcribed Fedchenko; born October 18, 1845 in Moscow , † April 24, 1921 in Petrograd ) was a Russian botanist. Your official botanical author abbreviation is " O.Fedtsch. "
She was the daughter of a professor of medicine at Armfeldt University in Moscow and began collecting insects and plants as a teenager. She joined a society of young naturalists in Moscow and translated biological works from German and French. At the Zoological Museum in Moscow she met Alexei Pavlovich Fedtschenko , whom she married in 1867 and whom she accompanied on expeditions to Turkestan from 1868 to 1872 , during which she worked as a botanist. In 1872 the couple visited Germany and Switzerland and in 1872 their son Boris Alexejewitsch Fedtschenko (1872–1947), who also became a biologist, was born in Leipzig . In 1873 her husband died while trying to climb Mont Blanc . As a result, with the help of other scientists, she completed the scientific travelogues to Turkestan that her husband had worked on. She continued her botanical work partly with her son and also visited Central Asia again (Kyrgyzstan, West Tian Shan, and with her son in 1901 to the Pamir Mountains). She also traveled to the southern Urals, the Caucasus, and the Crimea, and in 1895 set up a botanical garden for oriental plants in Mozhaisk on the family estate, with many plants that she collected on her travels. It was destroyed by the Bolsheviks in 1921 .
In 1906 she became a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The daisy family genus of Olgaea is named in her honor and around 40 plant names like Olga eremurus .
Fonts
- Fedchenko's travels in Turkestan 1868–1870, Petermann's communications 1874
- Flore du Pamir, d'après les explorations personnelles en 1901 et celles des voyageurs précédents, St. Petersburg 1903
- with Boris Fedtschenko: Conspectus Florae Turkestanicae 1913
- with Boris Fedtschenko: Plantea asiae mediae, 1906 to 1916
literature
- Bull. Moscow Soc. Naturalists, Biol. Ser. 110 (5), 2005, p. 68ff (for the 160th birthday)
Web links
- JSTOR Global Plants, biography, English
- Russian biography
- Author entry and list of the plant names described for Olga Alexandrovna Fedtschenko at the IPNI
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fedchenko, Olga Alexandrovna |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 18, 1845 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 24, 1921 |
| Place of death | Petrograd |