Alexander von Schrenk

Alexander Gustav von Schrenk (or Schrenck of Notzing, born February 4, 1816 in Trisnowo near Tula, † June 25, 1876 in Tartu in Estonia ) was a Baltic German naturalist. He was the brother of Leopold von Schrenck.

Life

Alexander (of ) Schrenk was born in Livonia (then Russia, now Latvia and Estonia), of German -born parents, and studied 1834-37 at Dorpat natural sciences, particularly mineralogy and Botanlk. After that, he was assistant at the Botanical Garden of St. Petersburg and took part in trips to Lapland, the northern Urals and later to Kyrgyzstan. From 1846 onwards again in Dorpat, he worked his research on ( trip to the north-east of European Russia, the Arctic through the tundras of Samojedenzum Ural Mountains, 2 vols, Dorpat, 1848) and was here in 1849 at the University lecturer in mineralogy (now called rather Geology; Overview of the Upper Silurian strata system Liv and Esthlands, vornämlich their island group, Dorpat 1852). 1858-68 he was mostly on his estate Heiligensee, then again in Dorpat, where he co-founded the Naturalists Society and 60 -year-old died after he was still some nice spiritual from the home of his ancestors, the Nordmark, published (1868 " book of fables " 1870 " romances and Ballads ").

Works

  • Report on an undertaken in the eastern Dzungarian Kirghiz Steppe in 1840 travel, 1840.
  • Journey to the Balkhash and on the Tarbagatai, 1841
  • Journey to the north-east of European Russia, the tundras of the Samoyeds, the Arctic Urals, two volumes in 1848; translated into English in 1964 as Journey to the North East of European Russia, through the tundras of the Samoyeds, to the Arctic Ural Mountains.
  • Proceedings of the Naturalist Society to Dorpat in the years 1853-1860

Obituary

His name is perpetuated in botanical (Picea schrenkiana, the Schrenk spruce, schrenkii Tulipa, tulip Schrenk and others) and the zoological (Perca schrenkii, the Balkhash perch) nomenclature.

After Alexander von Schrenk of the 372 km long river Schrenk is named, a left tributary of the Lower Taimyra on the Taimyr peninsula.

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