Viktor Masing (11 April 1925,

Tartu Tartu is the second largest city in Estonia after Tallinn. Tartu has a population of 97,759 (as of 2024). It is southeast of Tallinn and 245 kilometres (152 miles) northeast of Riga, Latvia. Tartu lies on the Emajõgi river, which connects the ...

– 18 March 2001) was an

Estonia Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Ru ...

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 ...

and

ecologist Ecology () is the natural science of the relationships among living organisms and their environment. Ecology considers organisms at the individual, population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere levels. Ecology overlaps with the closely re ...

. He was born in

. He became a member of the

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in 1993. He was a specialist in telmatology, and an organizer of wetland protection. His wife,

Linda Poots Linda Poots (March 25, 1929 – July 10, 2015) was an Estonian zoologist and journalist known for her work with bats. She was the longtime editor of the Estonian nature magazine ''Eesti Loodus''. Biography Linda Poots was born in 1929 in Tartu ...

, was a fellow scientist and nature writer. His son, Matti Masing, is a renowned nature scientist, and one of Europe's foremost experts on bats.

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20th-century Estonian botanists Estonian ecologists 1925 births 2001 deaths Scientists from Tartu Academic staff of the University of Tartu Members of the Estonian Academy of Sciences Recipients of the Order of the National Coat of Arms, 3rd Class Burials at Raadi cemetery {{Estonia-botanist-stub