Sofja Georgievna Tamamschjan

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Sofya Georgievna Tamamschjan ( Russian Софья Георгиевна Тамамшян * June 5 . Jul / 18th June  1901 greg. In Tbilisi , † 1981 ) was an Armenian origin , Georgian - Soviet botanist . Your botanical author abbreviation is “ Tamamsch. ".

Life

Tamamschjan's father Georgi Ivanovich Tamamschjan was a doctor and was the first to test the cholera vaccine in a self- experiment while working in Louis Pasteur's laboratory in Paris . Pasteur gave him a microscope that his daughter later used. Sofja Tamamschjan attended high school in the piano class . She also received ballet lessons and performed as a ballerina in the Tbilisi theater .

After graduating from high school in 1918, Tamamschjan began to study higher courses for women . She then moved to the Faculty of Agriculture of the Polytechnic Institute and finally to the Faculty of Agriculture of the Tbilisi State University . The Caucasus botanist Dmitri Iwanowitsch Sosnowski introduced her to the plants . After graduating in 1923, she became an assistant at the Department of Botany at Tbilisi State University.

Tamamschjan married the chemist Stephan Gambarjan and went with him to Yerevan . She worked at the Yerevan State University , where she set up herbariums and completed the library . 1932-1937 she headed the herbarium of the Natural Science-Historical Museum of the People's Commissariat for Education of the Armenian SSR and the branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (AN-SSSR) . Together with the museum directors, she created the basis for the herbarium of the Botany Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR. In 1936 she received her doctorate as a candidate in biological sciences without defending a dissertation .

1937–1941 Tamamschjan worked at the Moscow University in the herbarium, where she continued her previous work. During the German-Soviet War , she worked again in Armenia in the Botany Institute and then in the Research Laboratory for Pharmaceuticals .

In 1946 Tamamschjan became a research assistant at the Komarov Institute for Botany of the AN-SSSR (BIN) in Leningrad . There she started her doctoral thesis on the ancestors and descendants of the umbelliferae . She was involved in the monographs on the flora of the USSR and the flora of the Caucasus, and also in the Flora iranica . In 1952 she became a member of the BIN's Department of Plant Resources and in 1954 of the Department of Plant Systematics and Geobotany . In 1954 she led the expedition in Transcaucasia to study the aromatic plants . In 1963 she retired and settled in Moscow .

Plants named after Tamamschjan

  • Tamamschjania Pimenov & Kljuykov, 1981
  • Tamamschjanella Pimenov & Kljuykov, 1996

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e ПАМЯТИ СОФИИ ГЕОРГИЕВНЫ ТАМАГЛАШЯН (Russian; PDF; 2.5 MB; accessed February 4, 2020).
  2. ↑ a b А. К. Сытин: Тамамшян, Софья Георгиевна (Tamamshyan, Sophia Georgievna) (accessed February 4, 2020).
  3. ↑ Виноградова В. М .: Софья Георгиевна Тамамшян (к 105-летию со дня рождения) . In: Ботанический журнал . tape 91 , no. 11 , 2006, p. 1764–1769 (Russian, botdb.ru [PDF; 685 kB ; accessed on February 4, 2020]).
  4. ↑ Tamamschjan, Sofia: About some plants from the area around Eriwán . In: Repertorium novarum specierum regni vegetabilis . tape 38 , S2, 1935, pp. 162-171 .
  5. ↑ Tamamschjan, Sofia: On the carpobiology of the Actinolema macrolema Fenzl . In: Repertorium novarum specierum regni vegetabilis . tape 39 , S1, 1936, pp. 125-128 .
  6. ↑ Tamamschjan, Sofia: About some polygalaceous from the Caucasus . In: Repertorium novarum specierum regni vegetabilis . tape 39 , S2, 1936, pp. 321-329 .
  7. ↑ Tamamschjan, Sofia: New species and novelties of the Caucasian flora . In: Repertorium novarum specierum regni vegetabilis . tape 42 , S3, 1937, pp. 303-304 .
personal data
SURNAME Tamamschjan, Sofja Georgievna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Тамамшян, Софья Георгиевна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Armenian-Soviet botanist
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Tbilisi
DATE OF DEATH 1981