Pyotr Petrovich Sushkin

Pyotr Petrovich Suschkin ( Russian Пётр Петрович Сушкин ., Scientific transliteration Pëtr Petrovič Suskin * January 27 ^{. Jul} / 8. February  1868 ^greg. In Tula ; † 17th September 1928 in Kislovodsk ) was a Russian zoologist , Biogeograf and paleontologist .

Live and act

Sushkin has been enthusiastic about nature since childhood and studied the avifauna of the Moscow , Tula and Voronezh governorates during his studies at Moscow University . He published the results in his first publication and thus set standards for avifaunistic research in Russia. He received a research grant and in 1901 became a lecturer in zoology at Moscow University. In 1910 he received a chair for vertebrate zoology and comparative anatomy in Kharkiv . During the revolution he retired to the Crimea , where he taught at the local university for a few years until he was appointed head of the Zoological Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1921 . In 1923 he became a member of the academy. He chaired several scientific commissions, headed the newly established paleozoological exhibition of the Geological Museum and was managing director of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics.

Suschkin made several trips to Asia before 1917, where he mainly examined the avifauna of the Altai , the Kyrgyz steppes, Mongolia and Siberia . For him, questions about the evolution and spreading history of Palearctic bird species and groups were in the foreground. Later he included the butterflies in these considerations and also dealt with the origin of man, which he suspected in the mountains of Central Asia . In the field of comparative anatomy, he mainly dealt with the osteology and taxonomy of birds of prey as well as that of weaver birds and finches . In his last years he devoted research to the fossil reptile fauna of the Perm region . On several trips to England and America, he maintained contacts with Western research institutions and published many of his works in English.

He died on September 17, 1928 in Kislovodsk in the Caucasus at a pneumonia . His grave is in the Smolensk Cemetery in St. Petersburg (burial place No. 46).

Works

• The bird fauna of the Minusinsk region, the western part of the Sayan Mountains and the Urjanchen Land . Moscow 1913 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.8198

supporting documents

1. ↑ Uwe Alex, Jevgenij Šergalin: Biographies of Eastern European Ornithologists (19): Peter Petrovič Suškin (1868-1928) - founder of the Leningrad School of Systematics, Zoogeography and Paleontology in Ornithology . In: Ornithological Communications . tape 67 , no. 9/10 , 2015, p. 275-280 .

• Obituary - Peter Petrovitch Sushkin , Ibis, Volume 71 (1928), Issue 1, pp. 150-152, doi : 10.1111 / j.1474-919X.1929.tb08753.x

Web links

• Department of Ornithology , Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Science, St. Petersburg, accessed June 29, 2011