The Russian Entomological Society is a Russian scientific society devoted to
entomology
Entomology (from Ancient Greek ἔντομον (''éntomon''), meaning "insect", and -logy from λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study") is the branch of zoology that focuses on insects. Those who study entomology are known as entomologists. In ...
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The Society was founded in 1859 in
St. Petersburg by
Karl Ernst von Baer
Karl Ernst Ritter von Baer Edler von Huthorn (; – ) was a Baltic German scientist and explorer. Baer was a naturalist, biologist, geologist, meteorologist, geographer, and is considered a, or the, founding father of embryology. He was a m ...
,
Johann Friedrich von Brandt
Johann Friedrich von Brandt (25 May 1802 – 15 July 1879) was a German-Russian natural history, naturalist, who worked mostly in Russia.
Brandt was born in Jüterbog and educated at a Gymnasium (school), gymnasium in Wittenberg and the Humboldt ...
who was then the director of the
Zoological Museum of the Russian Academy of Science,
Ya. A. Kushakevich, Colonel
Alexander Karlovich Manderstern,
Alexander von Middendorff
Alexander Theodor von Middendorff (; 18 August 1815 – 24 January 1894) was a Russian zoologist and explorer of Baltic German and Estonian extraction. He was known for his expedition in 1843–45 to the extreme north and east of Siberia, des ...
and Colonel of General Staff
Victor Ivanovitsch Motschulsky. Another society founder was
Ferdinand Morawitz.
Karl v. Baer was elected the first president of the Society.
See also
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List of Russian biologists
This list of Russian biologists includes the famous biologists from the Russian Federation, the Soviet Union, the Russian Empire and other predecessor states of Russia. Biologists of all specialities may be listed here, including ecologists, botani ...
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Scientific societies based in Russia
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Scientific organizations established in 1859