Dmitry Ivanovich Litvinov (; – 5 July 1929) was a Russian

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responsible for the naming of a large variety of

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and

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n plants. He is known as the author of the concept of

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for the plants growing on

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and

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slopes of the banks of rivers in the European part of Russia. Together with Vasily Zinger, he discovered the natural monument

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( river Don) inhabited by

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plants. He graduated from the

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in 1879, receiving the degree of a construction mechanic specialist. Interested in

botany 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 ...

, 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. From 1901 until 1922, Litvinov was the editor of two succeeding

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under the title ''Herbarium Florae Rossicae''. Alternative spelling of the names: Dimitri Ivanovitch Litvinov (in French); Dmitrij Iwanowitsch Litwinow (in German).Author Details

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References

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- Litvinov Dmitry Ivanovich (1854-1929) 19th-century botanists from the Russian Empire 1855 births 1929 deaths Soviet botanists 20th-century Russian botanists {{Russia-botanist-stub