Sinaida Alexandrovna of Minkwitz

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Sinaida Alexandrowna von Minkwitz (also Zenaida Alexandrovna Minkwitz , Minckwitz , Minkwits ; Russian Зинаида Александровна фон Минквиц ; * 1878 in St. Petersburg ; † 1918 ) was a Russian botanist and translator .

Life

Minkwitz attended the Maria Girls' High School in Helsinki . In 1907 she returned to St. Petersburg and studied botany with Boris Alexejewitsch Fedtschenko in the herbarium of the St. Petersburg Imperial Botanical Garden .

From 1908 she and her cousin Olga von Knorring explored the flora in the Ujesds Schymkent , Aulije-Ata , Perovsk ( Kazakhstan ) and Andijon ( Uzbekistan ). In 1913 she was sent to Ujesd Kokand in Uzbekistan . She published her results in her own report, for which she received the Small Silver Medal of the Russian Geographical Society . Then she explored the flora in the Oka Valley in the vicinity of Tarussa .

In addition to her botanical research, Minkwitz translated plays by Western European authors into Russian .

Minkwitz died of typhus in the autumn of 1918 under the most difficult material conditions during the Russian Civil War .

Plants named after Minkwitz

  • Cousinia minkwitziae Bornm. , 1916
  • Ferula minkwitziae Korovin , 1947 (= Ferula tschimganica Lipsky ex Korovin , 1947)
  • Primula minkwitziae W.W.Sm. , 1934
  • Scutellaria × minkwitziae Juz. , 1954
  • Thesium minkwitzianum B. Fedsch . , 1923

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Komarov Institute of Botany of the Russian Academy of Sciences : Минквиц Зинаида Александровна (accessed February 3, 2020).
  2. ↑ Минквиц З. А. фон, Кнорринг О. Э. фон: Растительность Чимкентского уезда Сыр-Дарьинской области . St. Petersburg 1910.
  3. ↑ Кнорринг О. Э. фон, Минквиц З. А. фон: Растительность Аулие-Атинского уезда Сыр-Дарьинской области . St. Petersburg 1912.
  4. ↑ Кнорринг О. Э. фон, Минквиц З. А. фон: Растительность Перовского уезда Сыр-Дарьинской области . St. Petersburg 1913.
  5. ↑ Минквиц З. А. фон: Растительность Кокандского уезда Ферганской области . Petrograd 1917.
personal data
SURNAME Minkwitz, Sinaida Alexandrovna by
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Минквиц, Зинаида Александровна фон (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian botanist
DATE OF BIRTH 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH 1918