Dmitry Ivanovich Litvinov (russian: Дмитрий Иванович Литвинов; – 5 July 1929) was a Russian
botanist
Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...
responsible for the naming of a large variety of
East European and
Asian plants. He is known as the author of the concept of
glacial refugia A glacial refugium (''plural refugia'') is a geographic region which made possible the survival of flora and fauna in times of ice ages and allowed for post-glacial re-colonization. Different types of glacial refugia can be distinguished, namely nun ...
for the plants growing on
chalk and
limestone slopes of the banks of rivers in the
European part of Russia. Together with
Vasily Zinger, he discovered the natural monument
Galichya Gora
Galichya Gora is a Zapovednik or nature reserve located in Yeletsky District of Lipetsk Oblast and is administered by Voronezh State University.
History
Galichya Gora was founded on 25 April 1925. Originally it was administered by Yeletsky regio ...
in
Central Russia (
river Don) inhabited by
relict plants.
He graduated from the
Imperial Moscow Technical School
The Bauman Moscow State Technical University, BMSTU (russian: link=no, Московский государственный технический университет им. Н. Э. Баумана (МГТУ им. Н. Э. Баумана)), some ...
in 1879, receiving the degree of a construction mechanic specialist. Interested in
botany, in 1898 he quit his job as a teacher at a technical school and became a curator and later a senior botanist at the
Botanical Museum of the Academy of Sciences, where he worked until the end of his life.
Alternative spelling of the names: Dimitri Ivanovitch Litvinov (in French); Dmitrij Iwanowitsch Litwinow (in German).
Author Details
International Plant Names Index.
References
biogeographers.dvo.ru
- Litvinov Dmitry Ivanovich (1854-1929)
19th-century botanists from the Russian Empire
1855 births
1929 deaths
20th-century Russian botanists
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