> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 183](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333322) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/9104-1) LSID 9104-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q893705) QID Q893705 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Schischkin, Boris Konstantinovich (1886-1963), Russian botanist; studied at the medical faculty of the University of Tomsk 1906-1911, on botanical trips in East Kazakhstan 1912-1914; served on the Turkish front in World War I, studying the flora of Armenia; from 1918-1924 botanist at the Herbarium of Georgia, Tiflis; from 1925-1931 professor of botany at Tomsk University; from 1931-1963 at the Botanical Museum (later incorporated in the Komarov Botanical institute), Leningrad; from 1938-1949 as director; professor of botany at Leningrad University 1945-1958; head of the Department of Systematics and Plant Geography of the Komarov Botanical Institute 1945-1963. **Abbreviated name**: *Schischkin* \[standard form in IPNI: *Schischk.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection LE|LE]], [[Collection TK|TK]] and [[Collection VLA|VLA]]; other material [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection C|C]], [[Collection DAO|DAO]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection M|M]] (lich.), [[Collection NY|NY]]. *Exsiccatae*: *Plantae orientalis exsiccatae* 1924-1928, 16 fasc., with A.A. Grossheim. Set e.g. at [[Collection Z|Z]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 228; BJI 2: 154; Bossert p. 353 (b. 1 Mai 1886, d. 21 Mar 1963); Hirsch p. 263; Hortus 3: 1204; Kew 4: 626-627; Lipschitz p. 229 \[index\]; MW p. 435-436; Roon p. 103; TL-2/3857; Zander ed. 10, p. 711-712, ed. 2, p. 812. #### Biofile - Asmous, V.C., Chron. bot. 11(2): 109. 1947 (Fontes hist. bot. ross.). - Bobrov, E.G., Taxon 12(8): 273-276. 1963 (obit.). - Gager, C.S., Brookl. Bot. Gard. Rec. 27(3): 345. 1938 (dir. bot. gard. from 1937). - Linczevski, I.A., Sovietskaja botanica 14(5): 343-348. 1946 (bibl.); Novit. syst. pl. vasc. 1966: 316-330 (bibl. notes *Fl. URSS*). - Shetler, S.G., The Komarov Botanical Institute 235 \[index\]. 1967. - Stafleu, F.A., Taxon 12: 169. 1963 (d.). - Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 1: 274. 1935, 2: 283. 1936, 3: 254. 1937, 5: 269. 1939. #### Composite works - (1) Co-editor with V.L. Komarov of Fl. USSR vols. 2-13; editor vols. 14-30; for details see TL-2/3857 (lists e.g. Schischkin's numerous contributions) and Linczevski (1966). #### Note For a bibliography, giving the numerous pre-1940 publications in Russian, see I.A. Linczevski (1946). #### Handwriting S.V. Lipschitz & I.T. Vasilczenko, Central Herbarium USSR 1968, p. 133. #### Eponymy *Neoschischkinia* N.N. Cvelev (1968); *Schischkinia* Iljin (1935); *Schischkiniella* C.G.G.J. van Steenis (1967). ### Publications ##### n.10.726. Diagnoses specierum novarum generis Gypsophila **Title** *Diagnoses specierum novarum generis Gypsophila* L.... \[Candollea 1928\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Oct 1928, p. \[1\]-4. *Copy*: G. – Reprinted and to be cited from Candollea 3: \[473\]-476. 1928.