Albert Aleksander Üksip (8 December 1886 in

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– 10 August 1966 in

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) was an

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n actor,

botanist Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plant taxonomy, taxonomy, and Plant ecology, ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who s ...

(hieraciologist) and translator. He published a part of his works in Russian as Альберт Яковлевич Юксип, so besides the correct form Üksip there exist several variants of his name: Ueksip, Juxip, Juksip and Üxip. In 1902 he graduated from Narva city school. Between 1902 and 1923 he worked at Kreenholm Manufacturing Company. From 1923 to 1949 he was an actor of the national Estonian theatre "Estonia". After his retirement he worked on the genus ''

Hieracium ''Hieracium'' (), known by the common name hawkweed and classically as (from ancient Greek ἱέραξ, 'hawk'), is a genus of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, and closely related to dandelion (''Taraxacum''), chicory (''Cichorium''), ...

'', publishing two monographs and several smaller papers. He authored several hundred names in this difficult genus, including both new

species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...

he described and new nomenclatural combinations. There exists a documentary film about him, dated from 1963.

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