Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov

Vladimir Komarov Leontyevich (Russian: Владимир Леонтьевич Комаров; * 1.jul / October 13 1869greg in Saint Petersburg, .. † December 5, 1945 in Moscow) was a Russian botanist and geographer. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Kom ".

Life

Already in his youth, Komarov was interested in botany. In 1890 he enrolled at the University of Saint Petersburg and studied physics and mathematics there. As a student, Komarov was able to attend two expeditions to Turkestan and Kazakhstan and wrote three volumes on the local flora. For his work he was awarded a gold medal.

Because of political statements Komarov was then monitored by the Okhrana, the secret police of the Tsar and could not stay at the University longer. He accepted an offer of the Russian Geographical Society for an expedition to the Far East to escape the situation.

He accompanied an expedition there in preparation for the Amur railway and visited the Outer Manchuria. From 1895 to 1897 he worked on a three-volume Flora of Manchuria (1909 in St. Petersburg published ).

In 1898 he was curator of the Botanical Garden Saint Petersburg and began to teach, where he received his doctorate in 1902, was appointed lecturer, and finally in 1918 became a full professor at the university.

However, he took another big trips, so traveled Komarov 1902, the Sayan Mountains, where he ascended the Munku Sardyk, and visited Buryatia. In 1906 he visited the Lake Onega and traveled to Kamchatka.

In 1914 he became a member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, and in 1920 a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1921 he published two major works on the life of Carl Linnaeus and Jean -Baptiste de Lamarck.

In 1940 he was appointed as Honorary President of the Russian Geographical Society and won in the next two years, twice the Stalin Prize First Class, once for his studies on the morphology of plants and a second time for the organization of an important war operation in the Urals region. In 1943 he won the title of Hero of Socialist Labor and three Order of Lenin.

Komarov died on December 5, 1945 and was interred at the Moscow Novodevichy Cemetery. In 1948, the city was renamed in honor Kellomäki Komarov in Komarowo. In 1951 Evgeny Korovin named in his honor the plant genus Komarovia. Several plant species, sections and beetle and butterfly species are named after Komarov.