Evgenii Wulff

Evgenii Vladimirovich Wulff
Wulff in 1941
Born6 June [O.S. 25 May] 1885
Simferopol, Russian Empire (now Ukraine)
Died21 December 1941(1941-12-21) (aged 56)
Leningrad, Soviet Union
NationalityRussian
Alma materImperial Moscow University (1906)
Known forFlora of Crimea, History of Plant Geography
Scientific career
Fieldsbotany, plant geography
InstitutionsNikitsky Botanical Garden, Tavrida University
Author abbrev. (botany)E.Wulff

Evgenii Vladimirovich Wulff (Russian Евгений Владимирович Вульф) (1885–1941) was a Crimean Russian Soviet biologist, botanist and plant geographer.[1]

Wulff was born in Crimea and studied at Moscow University 1903-1906. He obtained his PhD in biology from the University of Vienna, Austria, in 1909. He then returned to Crimea and took up a position at the famous Nikitsky Botanical Garden near Yalta. He worked there 1914-1926, undertaking studies of the vegetation and flora of Crimea and founding the multi-volume Flora Taurica.[2] 1921-1926, he also was professor at the Tavrida University of Crimea.

He then moved to the Vavilov All-Union Institute of Crop Plants in Leningrad to expand his scientific studies. He took a particular interest in the history of plant geography. He published a monograph on this topic in 1932,[3] which was translated to English and published in the West posthumously.[4] This book has been hailed as one of the twentieth century's key writings in the evolution of plant geography .[5] In 1934, he was made professor at the Pokrovsky Pedagogical Institute, where he taught botany parallel to his research at the Vavilov Institute. In 1936, he published his Historical Geography of Plants,[6] of which an expanded version was published posthumously.[7]

Wulff died in 1941 during the Siege of Leningrad - killed by an exploding bomb.

The standard author abbreviation E.Wulff is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[8]

The leguminous shrub Chamaecytisus wulffii was named to his honour by Vitaly Krechetovich in 1945.

References

  1. ^ Asmous, Vladimir C. (July 21, 1944). "Losses in personnel of Soviet botany during the War". Science. New Series. 100 (2586): 43–44. Bibcode:1944Sci...100...43A. doi:10.1126/science.100.2586.43. JSTOR 1673121. PMID 17758910.
  2. ^ Wulff, E.V. (1927–30). Флора Крыма (Flora Kryma) - Flora Taurica, vol. 1 Pteridophyta. Gymnospermae, Monocotyledoneae (3 fascicles 1927, 1929, 1930), vol. 2 Dicotyledonae (3 fascicles 1947, 1953, 1960, edited by S. S. Stankov), vol. 3 Dicotyledonae (3 fascicles 1957, 1966, 1969 edited by S. S. Stankov, N. I. Rubtzov & L. A. Privalova), Addenda et corrigenda ad. vol. 1 (1959; edited by S. S. Stankov & N. I. Rubtzov) (in Russian). Moscow: Sel'khozgiz.
  3. ^ Wulff, E.V. (1932). Введение в историческую географию растений (Vvedenie v Istoricheskuiu Geofgrafiiu Rastenii). Moscow: Sel'khozgiz.
  4. ^ Wulff, E.V. (1943). An Introduction to Historical Plant Geography; translated by Elizabeth Brissenden. A new series of plant science books. Vol. 10. Waltham, MA: Chronica Botanica Co. p. 223. Republished as Chapter 18 in Foundations of biogeography: classic papers with commentaries edited by Mark V. Lomolino, Dov F. Sax and James H. Brown Google Books
  5. ^ Chrono-Biographical Sketch with portrait photograph
  6. ^ Wulff, E.V. (1936). Историческая география растений (Istoricheskaia Geografiia Rastenii) [Historical Geography of Plants] (in Russian). Moscow / Leningrad: Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R.
  7. ^ Wulff, E.V. (1944). Историческая география растений. История флор земного шара (Istoricheskaia Geografiia Rastenii - Istoriia Flor Zemnogo Shara) [Historical Geography of Plants - History of the World's Flora] (in Russian). Moscow / Leningrad: Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R.
  8. ^ International Plant Names Index.  E.Wulff.