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Ivan Borodin

Botanist (1847-1930)¹

Ivan Parfenievich Borodin (Иван Парфеньевич Бородин; 30 January 1847 - 5 March 1930) was a Russian botanist, academician, and the founding president of the Russian Botanical Society. A number of plants, including the genus Borodinia, are named after him.²

From Wikipedia’s article on Ivan Borodin (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Born Jan 30, 1847, died Mar 5, 1930.¹

About

Borodin, a pupil of Andrey Beketov and Andrey Famintsyn, is credited with the discovery (1880–1882) of crystallizing chlorophyll. Richard Willstätter, a famous authority on chlorophyll chemistry, named this substance Borodin crystals. From 1902, he was an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences. From 1902, he served as the director of the Botanical Museum of the Academy of Sciences.

During the First Russian Revolution, Borodin publicly criticized absolute monarchy. On Borodin's initiative, the Russian Botanical Society was established in 1915, and he served as its president until the end of his life. From October 1917 to May 1919, I. P. Borodin was the vice-president of the Russian Academy of Sciences. From 1917 to 1919, he was the director of the Petrograd Botanical Garden.

In the 1920s, Borodin opposed the election of prominent Bolsheviks as members of the Academy of Sciences. He was one of the first Russians to campaign for the protection of natural spaces. His daughters were the theologian Myrrha Lot-Borodine (the wife of Ferdinand Lot) and the historian Inna Lubimenko.

From Wikipedia’s article on Ivan Borodin, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.²

Companies

Russian Academy of SciencesVice president 1917 to 1919¹⁵

Early life and education

1869Saint Petersburg State University³

Career

Occupation: biologist, botanist.¹⁰

1920 to 1930Chair, Imperatorskoe sankt-peterburgskoe obshchestvo estestvoispytateleĭ⁹
1917 to 1919Vice president, Russian Academy of Sciences⁴
1915 to 1930Chair, Russian Botanical Society⁸
1902 to 1930Director, Museum of Botanical Garden of V.L. Komarov Botanical Institute⁴
1902 to 1930Chair, Museum of Botanical Garden of V.L. Komarov Botanical Institute⁷
1899 to 1904Chair, Federal Research Center "N.I. Vavilov All-Russian Institute of Plant Genetic Resources"⁶
1869 to 1904Head of department, Saint Petersburg State Forest Technical University⁴
Date not recordedWorked at Bestuzhev Courses⁴
Date not recordedProfessor, S. M. Kirov Military Medical Academy⁴
Date not recordedProfessor, Saint Petersburg State University⁴
Date not recordedFounded Federal Research Center "N.I. Vavilov All-Russian Institute of Plant Genetic Resources"⁵

Personal life

BornJan 30, 1847, Veliky Novgorod¹¹
DiedMar 5, 1930, Saint Petersburg¹²
CitizenshipSoviet Union, Russian Empire¹³
SpouseAleksandra Borodina¹⁴

Sources

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WikidataIvan Borodin on Wikidata
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WikidataIvan Borodin: Worked at Bestuzhev Courses, on Wikidata
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WikidataIvan Borodin: Founded Federal Research Center "N.I. Vavilov All-Russian Institute of Plant Genetic Resources", on Wikidata
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WikidataIvan Borodin: Chair, Federal Research Center "N.I. Vavilov All-Russian Institute of Plant Genetic Resources", on Wikidata
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WikidataIvan Borodin: Chair, Museum of Botanical Garden of V.L. Komarov Botanical Institute, on Wikidata
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WikidataIvan Borodin: Chair, Russian Botanical Society, on Wikidata
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WikidataIvan Borodin: Chair, Imperatorskoe sankt-peterburgskoe obshchestvo estestvoispytateleĭ, on Wikidata
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WikidataIvan Borodin: occupation, on Wikidata
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WikidataIvan Borodin: place of birth, on Wikidata
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WikidataIvan Borodin: place of death, on Wikidata
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WikidataIvan Borodin: spouse, on Wikidata
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WikidataRussian Academy of Sciences, Vice president
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Wikimedia CommonsIvan Borodin photo by Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain