Nicolai Stepanovitch Turczaninow

Porphir Kiril Nicolai Stepanowitsch Turczaninow (1796 in Nikitovka, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine - 1863) was a Ukrainian-Russian botanist who first identified several genera, and many species of plants. Several species have been named after him, for example, Connarus turczaninowii, Hydrocotyle turczaninowii, and Sisymbrium turczaninowii.

In 1814, Turczaninow graduated from Kharkov University and went to work as a civil servant in St. Petersburg, where he published his first botanical list in 1825. In 1828 Turczaninov was assigned an administrative post in Irkutsk, Siberia. This allowed him to collect in the Lake Baikal area, and a spate of papers followed.

Turczaninov later opened an herbarium in Taganrog on the Sea of Azov. After a debilitating fall, he allowed others to collect for him and he spent his time in classification, study and writing.

The standard author abbreviation Turcz. is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.^[1]

Prize

1857 Demidov prize of The Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg

References

• Marchant, N. G. (1988) "The contribution of the Russian botanist Turczaninov to Australian plant taxonomy" in Short, P.S. (ed.) (1990) History of Systematic Botany in Australasia: Proceedings of a Symposium Held at the University of Melbourne, 25–27 May 1988 Australian Systematic Botany Society, Melbourne, pp. 121–130, ISBN 0-7316-8463-X;

1. ^ "Author Query". International Plant Names Index. http://www.ipni.org/ipni/authorsearchpage.do. 

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Name	Turczaninow, Porphir Kiril Nicolai Stepanowitsch
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Date of birth	1796
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Date of death	1863
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