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VII > Author links: [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2067228) QID Q2067228 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Famintsyn \[Famincyn, Famintzin, Famintzuin\], Andrei \[André, Andrej, Andrey\] Sergeevich \[Sergejewitsch\] (1835-1918), Russian cryptogamic botanist who specialized in anatomy and physiology, born 17/29 Jun 1835 in the Sokolniki District, Moscow, descendent of a 16th century Scottish immigrant (Famintsyn is Russian for Thompson), studied in St. Petersburg, Heidelberg and Freiburg where he briefl y worked in the lab. of A. de Bary 1858, Dr. Bot. 1884, Prof., St. Petersburg 1908 and member of the Imperial Academy of Science, founder of plant physiology as an academic discipline in Russia, proponent of the symbiogenesis theory of evolution in which he independently but simultaneously with Constantin Sergeevich Merezhokowsky (1855-1921) argued that mitochondria originated as bacteria, first biologist to demonstrate photosynthesis in artificial light, died 8/21 Dec 1918. **Abbreviated name**: *Famintsyn* #### Herbarium and types Unknown. – Some mss. material in the Russian Acad. Sciences, Moscow. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 526; Biol.-Dokum. 5: 65.051-65.057; BM 2: 556, 6: 313; Bossert p. 121; CSP 2: 554, 7: 637-638, 9: 828, 14: 922-923; De Toni 1: xlvi, 4: xxi; Frank 3(Anh.): 29; GR p. 559; Herder p. 449 (index); Jackson p. 95, 171; Kelly p. 250 (as "Famintzin "); LS 1688-1689, 8273-8281, 33.139-33.140; LS suppl. 7971-7973; Moebius p. 110, 369; Morren ed. 2: 30, ed. 10: 95; MW p. 111; NAF 1(1): 158; Portr. 3: 417; PR ed. 2: 2813-2814; Rehder 5(index): 270 (as "Famitzin, André Serghyeevich"); TL-2/4: 1170, 2/7: 633 (indices, as "André Sergejewitsch Famintzin" sub nr. 18.306); TR p. 75-76 (as "Famintzin"). #### Biofile - Borodin, I.P., 1919 \[1920\]. Zhurn. Russk. Bot. Obshch. Akad. Nauk 4: 132-151. (bibl.) - Dörfler, I., 1896. Botaniker-Adressbuch: 128 (as "Famintzin"); 1902. Id., ed. 2: 175. (as "Famintzin, André"); 1909. Id., ed. 3: 247. (as "Famintzin") - Elenkin, A.A., 1921. Izv. Glavn. Bot. Sada RSFSR 20: 67-74. (portr.) - \[Engelmann, W.\], 1891. Botanisches Adressbuch: 107. - Khakhina, L.N., 1992. Concepts of symbiogenesis, New Haven, Conn. (Yale Univ. Press): 169. (index) (portr.) \[English transl. of: Problema simbiogeneza; L. Margulis & M. McMenamin, eds.\] - Kursanov, A. & S.R. Mikulinskii (eds.), 1981. A.S. Famintsyn: zhizn i nauchnaia deiatelnost, Leningrad (Nauka, Leningradskoe Otdelenie): 1-223. (bibl. \[p. 196-202\], biogr., portrs. \[incl. frontisp.\]) - Saffo, M.B., 1996. BioScience 46: 300-304. - Sapp, J., 1994. Evolution by association, New York (Oxford Univ. Press): 251. (index) - Senchenkova, K.M., 1960. Bot. Zhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) 45: 309-317. (40th anniversary F.'s death) - Shetler, S.G., 1967. The Komarov Bot. Inst.: 221. (index) (as "Famintzin") - Strogonov, B.P., 1996. Andrei Sergeevich Famintsyn: 1835-1918, Moskva ("Nauka") \[In series, Nauchno-biograficheskaia seriia\]: 176 p. (bibl. \[p. 141-157\], biogr., portrs.) #### Eponymy *Famintzinia* Hazsl. (1877). #### Composite works - (1) First (not co-) author with M. Woronin, *Zwei Schleimpilz*.... 1873, see TL-2/7, nr. 18.306. ### Publications ##### n.33.780. Entwickelungsgeschichte **Title** Zur *Entwickelungsgeschichte* der *Gonidien* und Zoosporenbildung der Flechten... St.-Pétersbourg (Mm. Eggers et Co....)... 1867. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Entw.-gesch. Gonidien*. **Notes** *Co-author*: Baranetzky, Joseph Wasiljewitsch (1843-1905), see TL-2/1: 118 & Suppl. 1: 313-314 (not Boranetzky \[sic\], as printed on t.p.). *Publ*.: Jul 1867 (date on p. \[ii\], read 6 Jun 1867), cover-t.p., p. \[i-ii\], \[1\]-7, *1 pl*. (col. lith.). *Copies*: BM, G(2), MO (n.v.), NY, U, WU. – Issued as Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint Pétersbourg, sér. 7, 11(9). 1867. ##### n.33.781. Embryologische Studien **Title** *Embryologische Studien*... Mémoires de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg... 1879. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Embryol. Stud.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Jan 1879 (date of printing on p. \[ii\], read 7 Nov 1878, Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 18 Apr 1879, Nat. Nov. Mai (1) 1879), p. \[i-ii\], \[1\]-19, *pl. 1-3* (uncol. draw.). *Copies*: L, U. – Issued as Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint Pétersbourg, sér. 7, 26(10). 1879. *Ref*.: de Bary, A., Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 37(1): 483. 25 Jul 1879 (rev.). - Anon., Bull. Soc. Bot. France 26(RBD): 166-167. Jan 1880 (rev.). ##### n.33.782. Beitrag **Title** *Beitrag* zur *Symbiose* von *Algen* und *Thieren*... Mémoires de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg...1889-1891. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Beitr. Symb. Algen Thieren*. **Notes** *Publ*. \[*1*\]: Mar 1889 (date of printing on p. \[ii\], read 17 Jan 1889, Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 26 Jul 1889, Oesterr. Bot. Z. 1 Sep 1889), cover-t.p., p. \[i-ii\], \[1\]-36, *pl. 1-2* (chromolith.). *Copies*: B, FH (n.v.), L, NY, U. – Issued as Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint Pétersbourg, sér 7, 36(16). 1889. \[*2*\]: Apr 1891 (date of printing, read 13 Feb 1891), p. \[i-iii\], \[1\]-16, *1 pl*. (col. lith.). *Copies*: HH (n.v.), L, NY, U. – Id., sér. 7, 38(4). 1891. ##### n.33.783. Symbiose **Title** Die *Symbiose* als Mittel der *Synthese* von *Organismen*... Sonderabdruck aus dem "Biologischen Centralblatt"... 1907. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Symbiose Synthese Organismen* (*1907*) **Notes** *Publ*.: 1 Jun 1907 (in journal, read 25 Oct 1906), cover-t.p., p. \[353\]-364. *Copy*: B. – Reprinted and to be cited from Biol. Centralbl. 27(12): 353-364. 1907. *Note*: Transl. from the Russian, i.e. O rodi simbioza v zvoliutsii organizmov, with additions. ##### n.33.784. Kenntnis **Title** Beitrag zur *Kenntnis* von *Bryopsis mucosa* Lam.... Sonderabdruck aus den Berichten der Deutschen Botanischen Gesellschaft... 1912. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 28 Nov 1912 (in journal, read 9 & 22 Nov 1911, submitted 7 Jun 1912), cover (identif.), p. \[431\]-435, *pl. 13* (part. col. lith.). *Copies*: B, L. – Reprinted and to be cited from Ber. Deutsch. Bot. Ges. 30(8): 431-435, *pl. 13.* 1912. ##### n.33.785. Symbiose **Title** Die *Symbiose* als Mittel der *Synthese* von *Organismen*... Sonderabdruck aus den Berichten der Botanischen Gesellschaft... 1912. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Symbiose Synthese Organismen* (*1912*) **Notes** *Publ*.: 28 Nov 1912 (in journal, read 16 & 29 Mai 1912, submitted 11 Jun 1912), p. \[435\]-442. *Copies*: B, L. – Reprinted and to be cited from Ber. Deutsch. Bot. Ges. 30(8): 435-442. 1912.