Valentin Lwowitsch Bianchi

Valentin Lwowitsch Bianchi

Valentin Bianchi Lvovich ( russian Валентин Львович Бианки * February 18 ^{. Jul} / 2. March  1857 ^greg. In Moscow ; † 10. January 1920 in Petrograd ) was a Russian zoologist .

Life

Bianchi's Ticino grandmother was prima donna at the St. Petersburg Mariinsky Theater . Bianchi's German grandfather was an opera singer who, at the request of his impresario, changed his name from Weiß to Bianchi before a tour of Italy .

Bianchi was interested in natural history from a young age . He attended the Gurevich Gymnasium in St. Petersburg from 1868 to 1878 and put on zoological and botanical collections during the holidays . He then studied there at the Medical - Surgical Academy, which in 1881 became the Military Medical Academy . In 1883 he left the academy as a doctor . Then he worked as an assistant physician at the Clinic for Internal Medicine and a Doctor in Maria - Obstetrics home . In January 1885 he got the position of Zemstvo doctor in Ujesd Stariza , which he gave up in September 1885 to become assistant at the chair of zoology and comparative anatomy at the Medical Academy at the suggestion of Eduard Brandt .

In April 1887, Bianchi became a scientific curator in the entomological department of the St. Petersburg Zoological Museum . He was mainly concerned with butterflies and beetles . In the case of vertebrates , the focus was on the systematics and biology of the birds . In 1896 he was elected senior zoologist by the physical - mathematical department of the Imperial Academy of Sciences and now headed the ornithological department of the Zoological Museum as the successor to Theodor Pleske .

Bianki Island

In 1900, Bianchi was elected Scientific Secretary of the Russian Polar Expedition . In 1908 he was at the invitation of Pyotr Juljewitsch Schmidt with the zoological department of the expedition Fyodor Pawlowitsch Ryabuschinski on Kamchatka . He investigated the bird life in the area of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky , in the valley of the Kamchatka between Ust-Kamchatsk and Kozyrewsk and at the Klyuchevskoi volcano . In 1911 he received the small gold medal of the Russian Geographical Society .

Bianchi was married to Clara Emma Matilda nee Blank, with whom he had a daughter and four sons. His youngest son was the writer Vitali Walentinowitsch Bianki , whose son Vitali Vitalievich Bianki became an ornithologist .

Bianchi died of pneumonia and was buried in St. Petersburg's Shuvalovskoye cemetery.

After Bianchi, the species Bianchilaubsänger (Phylloscopus valentini) of the family Laubsängerigte (Phylloscopidae), which was first described by Ernst Hartert , and the island of Bianki in the eastern Nordenskiöld archipelago of the Kara Sea were named.

Web links

• Literature by and about Valentin Lwowitsch Bianchi in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Brandt EK: Бианки (Валентин Львович) . In: Brockhaus-Efron . tape IV , 1891, p. 24-25 ( Wikisource [accessed May 27, 2019]).
2. ↑ ^{a b} Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Department of Ornithology (accessed May 26, 2019).
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Bianki Valentin Lvovich (02 /18/ 1857– 01/10/1920) (accessed on May 26, 2019).
4. ↑ ^{a b} Бианки Валентин Львович - Петербургский некрополь (accessed May 26, 2019).
5. ↑ ^{a b} Валентина Пономарева: Как родилась династия? Памяти Валентина Бианки (accessed May 26, 2019).
6. ↑ ^{a b c} Камчатский край: Бианки Валентин Львович (биография) (accessed May 27, 2019).
7. ↑ Bianchi VL: About a new shrike from the genus Otomela (Otomela Bogdanowi ) . In: Bull. Acad. Imp. Sc. St. Petersb. tape XXX , 1886, p. 514-519 .
8. ↑ Bianchi VL: To the Ornis of the western foothills of the Pamir and the Altai . In: Bull. Acad. Imp. Sc. St. Petersb. tape XXXI , 1886, p. 337-396 .
9. ↑ Bianchi VL: Biological notes on the birds observed in the summer of 1885 near Ushaki ( Novgorod governorate ) . In: Contribution z. Know d. Soot. Reichs . April 30, 1888, p. 189-275 .
10. ↑ Bianchi's Warbler (Phylloscopus valentini) (accessed May 27, 2019).