Valentin Dogiel

Valentin Alexandrovich Dogiel (Russian: Валентин Александрович Догель, Valentin Alexandrovich Dogel) (Kazan, 11 March [O.S. 26 February] 1882 – Leningrad, 1 June 1955) was a Russian zoologist and professor of Polish origin who had specialized in parasitology and protozoology . He published the book 'Obščaja protozoologija' which was published in English under the name General Protozoology in 1965.

Dogiel contributed significantly in the field of taxonomy of parasites and protozoa in general. Of more than 250 publications, 34 he devoted to this subject. In 1929 he founded the faculty for the study of diseases in fish.[1]

He was appointed a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1939, and a foreign member of the Linnean Society of London in 1944.[1]

He was tutor and mentor to the English Zoologist Cecil Hoare, who wrote his obituary for the Linnean Society in 1955.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Obituary in Linnean Society Journal, 1955". Retrieved 3 February 2015.

See also

O. Bauer, Yu. Polianski, en S. Willmott, V.A. Dogiel (1882-1953), Systematic Parasitology, Volume 4, Number 3, okt 1982, p. 256