Edmund Russow

Edmund August Friedrich Russow (24 February 1841 – 11 April 1897) was a Baltic German biologist born in Tallinn.

1 Academic career
2 Botanical work
3 Written works
4 References

Academic career

Son of a military engineer, Edmund Russow studied at the Universities of Dorpat and Berlin. In 1867 he became an associate professor at Dorpat, where from 1874 to 1897 he served as a full professor. In 1895-97 he was president of the Estonian Naturalists' Society. Russow was at the forefront of nature conservation in Estonia, and associated with the work of Hugo Conwentz (1865-1922), a founder of nature conservation efforts throughout Europe.

Botanical work

Russow was an authority on Sphagnaceae (sphagnum mosses)^[1] and remembered for his research in plant anatomy and histology, in particular studies of the plant family Marsileaceae (aquatic and semi-aquatic ferns).^[2] The plant genus Russowia is named in his honor^[3], as is Sphagnum russowii (Russow's sphagnum).

Written works

Histologie und Entwicklungsgeschichte der Sporenfrucht von Marsilia. Dissertation. Dorpat (1871)
Betrachtungen uber das leitbundel- und grundgewebe aus vergleichend morphologischem und phylogenetischem geschichtspunkt (1875).^[4]

References

Biographical information based on a article from the Estonian Wikipedia.

^ [1] Botanical gazette, Volume 24 By John Merle Coulter, et al
^ [2] Google Books, Marsileaceae
^ [3] CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, by Umberto Quattrocchi
^ [4] Open Library, authors

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Date of birth	24 February 1841
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Date of death	11 April 1897
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Edmund Russow

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Academic career

Botanical work

Written works

References