Dvigubsky Ivan Biography

Ivan Dvigubsky: “First Know the Motherland, and then become a traveler” The article on August 21, having traveled Europe and the Russian Empire, having studied the mountains and steppes, Ivan Alekseevich Dvigubsky went down in the history of science primarily as a naturalist who studied the nature of our homeland - the central part of Russia. For forty years of his life, he gave to the service of Moscow University, having traveled from a student bench to the professorship department.

As the rector, he ruled the university in a difficult historical period, in the era of oppression of free thought. He is one of those scientists thanks to which Russian science has gained its own language.

Many botanical terms, now known to us from school, for example, “perianth”, “ovary”, were introduced by Dvigubsky in the first quarter of the 19th century. Having proposed the term “ovary” in the meaning of “beginnings of future fruits”, he justified this by the fact that it was this word that gardeners and gardeners have long been used by this word. Along with the teaching and administrative activity, Dvigubsky was busy collecting materials for long -planned works.

His two main interests are Fauna and Flora. In the year, he publishes a “brief description of all the animals of the four -legged and whales that are found within the Russian state, with the indication of the places where exactly they are found.” Next year, the illustrated popular science publication “images and descriptions of animals of the Russian Empire”, consisting of 12 issues and containing descriptions of certain species of animals, birds, fish, insects and worms, comes out of the press.

The author defined the goal of this series as follows: "If possible, to make domestic works of nature more or better known." And the result of the thirty-year works of the Dvigubsky-Zoologist was the publication in the years of "the experience of the natural history of all the animals of the Russian Empire." In the Tom “Gades, or Animals of Preights”, published in the year, the author described the Transcaucasian Gyurza Macrovipera Lebetina Obtusa Dwigubsky, the only subspecies of this large and deadly snake, which is located on the territory of modern Russia and now listed in the Red Book of the Russian Federation.

Ivan Alekseevich became the author of the first Russian economic dictionary, 12 volumes of which included information about agriculture and gardening, gardening and beekeeping, about silk farming, animal, bird and fishing, as well as boiled, distillates and confectionery arts, winemaking, distinction, meditation and many, many more ... Read more in Tome in Tome “Famous fellow countrymen.

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