Vladimir Leontievich Komarov

Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov ( Russian Владимир Леонтьевич Комаров * 1 ^{. Jul} / 13. October 1869 ^greg. In Saint Petersburg , † 5. December 1945 in Moscow ) was a Russian botanist and geographer . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Kom. "

Life

Even in his youth, Komarov was interested in botany. In 1890 he enrolled at the University of Saint Petersburg , where he studied physics and mathematics. As a student, Komarov was able to take part in two expeditions to Turkestan and Kazakhstan and wrote three volumes about the flora there. He was awarded a gold medal for his work.

Because of political statements, Komarov was then monitored by the Ochrana , the tsar's secret police , and could no longer stay at the university. He accepted an offer from the Russian Geographic Society for an expedition to the Far East to avoid the situation.

There he accompanied an expedition to prepare the Amur Railway and visited Outer Manchuria . From 1895 to 1897 he then worked on a three-volume Flora of Manchuria (published in St. Petersburg in 1909).

In 1898 he became the conservator of the Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden and began teaching at the university, where he received his doctorate in 1902 , was appointed private lecturer , and finally became a full professor in 1918.

However, he undertook further long journeys, for example, in 1902 Komarow toured the Sayan Mountains , where he climbed the Munku Sardyk , and visited Buryatia . In 1906 he visited Lake Onega and toured Kamchatka .

In 1914 he became a member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, and in 1920 a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences . In 1921 he published two extensive works on the life of Carl von Linné and Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck .

In 1940 he was made honorary president of the Russian Geographical Society and in the following two years won the Stalin Prize first class twice , once for his studies on the morphology of plants and a second time for the organization of a war-important operation in the Urals region. In 1943 he won the title of Hero of Socialist Labor and three orders of Lenin .

Komarov died on December 5, 1945 and was buried in Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery.

Honors

In 1948 the town of Kellomäki was renamed Komarowo in honor of Komarov .

In 1951, Yevgeny Korovin named the plant genus Komarovia from the umbelliferous family (Apiaceae) in his honor . The genus Vladimiria Iljin from the Asteraceae family also honors him. Several plant species, sections , beetle species and butterfly species as well as the Komarov Institute in St. Petersburg have been named after him.

Works

Flora Manshuriae , 1901-1907
Flora peninsulae Kamchatka .. , 1927–1929.

In addition to the above works, he is the editor of Volumes 1 to 13 of the Flora USSR , 1934–1948.

Individual evidence

↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]
↑ Walter Erhardt among others: The great pikeperch. Encyclopedia of Plant Names . Volume 2, page 1972. Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2008. ISBN 978-3-8001-5406-7

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personal data
SURNAME	Komarov, Vladimir Leontievich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Комаров, Владимир Леонтьевич (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian botanist and geographer
DATE OF BIRTH	October 13, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH	St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH	December 5, 1945
Place of death	Moscow

[Burkhardt2018-1] Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]

[Zander-2] Walter Erhardt among others: The great pikeperch. Encyclopedia of Plant Names . Volume 2, page 1972. Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2008. ISBN 978-3-8001-5406-7