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.

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