Richard Maack

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Russian explorer and botanist (1825–1886)

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occupationNaturalist, geographer, botanist, and educator
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Richard Otto Maack (; 4 September 1825 – 25 November 1886) was a Russian naturalist, geographer, and anthropologist. He is most known for his exploration of the Russian Far East and Siberia, particularly the Ussuri and Amur River valleys.

Ethnically Maack was a Baltic German from Estonia; however, the Russian Empire controlled this country during his lifetime. He was a member of the Siberian branch of the Russian Geographical Society.

Biography

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Maack was born in Kuressaare, Estonia and studied natural sciences at the University of St. Petersburg. In 1852 he became a professor of natural sciences at the Gymnasium in Irkutsk and later director of the school. From 1868 to 1879, he was the superintendent of all schools of northern Siberia.

During the 1850s he undertook a number of expeditions in Siberia including those to the Amur River valley (1855–1856) and the Ussuri River (1859). He also participated in the Russian Geographical Society's first expedition (1853–55) to describe the orography, geology and population of the Vilyuy and Chona River basins.

He is credited with discovering Syringa reticulata var. amurensis simultaneously and independently of Carl Maximowicz.

Plants named after him

Maack is most famous for collecting previously unknown species and sending specimens back for scientific descriptions and naming. A number of those he found on his Amur River expedition bear his name.

Image:Maackia amurensis.jpg|Amur maackia is a small tree. Image:LoniceraMaackiiFlowers3.jpg|Amur Bush Honeysuckle Image:Prunus Maackii A.jpg|Amur choke cherry is a small tree.

Animals named after him

Plants named by him

Selected publications

  • Puteshestvie na Amur/Путешествие на Амур (Travels on the Amur). 1859. St. Petersburg.
  • Puteshestvie v dolinu reki Ussuri/Путешествие в долину реки Уссури (Journey through the Ussuri river valley). 1861. St. Petersburg.
  • Вилюйский округ Якутской области (Vilyuysky District of Yakutsk Oblast) (1877–86)
  • Очерк флоры Уссурийской страны (Essay about flora of Ussuri land). 1862.
  • Енисейская губерния (Yenisei province) in the "List of settlements Russian Empire".

References

Sources

References

  1. [https://books.google.com/books?id=uZMDAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1938 The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture] by Liberty Hyde Bailey, 1916, pg. 124.
  2. "Antiquarian Books".
  3. [https://books.google.com/books?id=kaN-hLL-3qEC&pg=PA1573 CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names] 2000, By Umberto Quattrocchi. p. 1573.
  4. [https://books.google.com/books?id=xku_Ik6E96MC&pg=PA1040 Literature of Travel and Exploration 2002.] By [[Jennifer Speake]]. Taylor & Francis. p. 1040.
  5. [https://archive.today/20120630072218/http://slovari.yandex.ru/dict/bse/article/00044/26500.htm Great Soviet Encyclopedia] Richard Maak. Materials provided by the project Rubrikon.
  6. [https://books.google.com/books?id=rYatjOH-LbAC&pg=PA45 Lilacs] By John L. Fiala, 2002 p. 45. Timber Press.
  7. (June 30, 1944). "Worth Seeing". Niagara Falls Review.
  8. Coombes, Allen J. (2012). {{google books. capqDQYT_VYC&. The A to Z of Plant Names: A Quick Reference Guide to 4000 Garden Plants
  9. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN. 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Maack", p. 164).

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