Johannes Theodor Schmalhausen
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Johannes Schmalhausen | |
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| Born | 1849 |
| Died | 1894 (aged 44–45) |
| Known for | Flora yugo-zapadnoj Rossii (1886) Flora sredney i yuzhnoj Rossii, Kryma i Severnogo Kavkaza[1] (1895-1897) |
| Children | Ivan |
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| Fields | Botanist |
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Johannes Theodor Schmalhausen (Russian: Иван Фёдорович Шмальгаузен, romanized: Ivan Fyodorovich Shmalgauzen; 1849–1894) was a Russian botanist of German descent, known for his studies of East-European plants.[1][2][3]
Early life and education
[edit]Johannes Theodor Schmalhausen was born in Saint Petersburg. His father was a librarian at the Russian Academy of Sciences. After attending the Gymnasium, Schmalhausen studied botany at the University of St. Petersburg graduating with a magister degree in 1874. He was awarded the Gold Medal of the University for the botanical essay "On plant hybrids. Observations from St. Petersburg", was selected for a Professorial career and sent abroad from 1874 to 1876. He studied in Strasbourg (with Heinrich Bary and Andreas Schimper), Zurich (with Oswald Heer), Vienna, Prague, Munich, Berlin, visited the Alps, Northern Italy and Southern France.
In 1877, he became a conservator at the herbarium of the Imperial Botanical Garden in Saint Petersburg and was ordained as a professor (Russian doctorate).
Career
[edit]From 1878 he was associate professor at Vladimir University of Kiev and later professor of botany. For several years he was director of the botanical garden at the University of Kiev.
His youngest son was the evolutionary biologist Ivan Schmalhausen.
Legacy
[edit]The genus Schmalhausenia (family Asteraceae) is named in his honor.[4]
Published works
[edit]- Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Milchsaftbehälter der Pflanzen, 1877.
- Beiträge zur Jura-Flora Russlands, 1879.
- Beiträge zur Tertiärflora Süd-West-Russlands, 1883.
- Tertiäre Pflanzen der Insel Neusibirien, 1890.
References
[edit]- ^ a b HUH Publications Index
- ^ Herbarium of vascular plants of National Herbarium of Ukraine: general information Archived 2010-01-28 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ HUH Botanists Index
- ^ Biodiversity Heritage Library Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Schmalh.
Sources
[edit]- . Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (in Russian). 1906.
External links
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Media related to Ivan Fedorovich Schmalhausen at Wikimedia Commons
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- 1849 births
- 1894 deaths
- Scientists from Saint Petersburg
- Saint Petersburg State University alumni
- Academic staff of Saint Petersburg State University
- Corresponding members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences
- Academic staff of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
- People from the Russian Empire of German descent
- 19th-century botanists from the Russian Empire