> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 520](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212562) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/10885-1) LSID 10885-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q241118) QID Q241118 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Tswett, Michael \[Michel\] Semenovich (1872-1919), Russian (Italy-born) botanist; studied at Lausanne and Genève; Lic. sci. nat. Genève 1896 as student of M. Thury; assistant (1901-1902), lecturer (1902-1907) at the University of Warsaw; professor of botany and agronomy at the Veterinary Institute of Warsaw 1907; professor of botany and microbiology at the Polytechnic Institute ib. 1908-1915; professor of botany at Dorpat 1917; specially interested in botanical chromatography. **Abbreviated name**: *Tswett* \[standard form in IPNI: *Tswett*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. – *Letters* at [[Collection G|G]]. #### Note The author used the spelling Tsvett in his later works. Wrote to J. Briquet (19 Mar 1897) "Vous devez me considérer plutôt comme un compatriote que comme le Russe que je ne suis pas". – Major work: *Les chromophylles dans les mondes végétal et animal*, Warsaw 1910, 380 p. (in Russian, Achmatov prize). For a contemporary account of his work see DSB (1976). #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 406 (b. 29 Mai 1872, d. Mai 1920); Biol.-Dokum. 18: 9408; DSB 13: 486-488 (E.M. Senchenkova). #### Biofile - Anon., Ber. deut. bot. Ges. 37: (160). 1919 (1920), (d. Mai 1920, err.); Bot. Centralbl. 110: 160. 1909 (app. Warsaw), 119: 176. 1912 (Achmatov Prize); Bot. Not. 1920: 126; Mycol. Centralbl. 1: 65. 1912 (Achmatov Prize); Nat. Nov. 31: 191. 1909 (app. Warsaw); Österr. bot. Z. 59: 127. 1909 (app. Warsaw), 70: 64. 1921 (d.), 72: 124. 1923 (d. in Woronesh). - Briquet, J., Bull. Soc. bot. Suisse 50a: 463-466. 1940 (biogr. sketch, detailed bibl. 56 nos.). - Dhéré, C., Candollea 23-73. 1946 (account of work). - Miège, J., Musées de Genève 133: 18-22. 1973 (biogr. sketch, portr., evaluation of chromatographical work; d. 26 Jun 1919 at Voronesh). - Morton, A.G., Hist. bot. Sci. 450. 1981. - Williams, T.I., Biogr. dict. Scient. 520-521. 1969; Endeavour 31(112): 2. 1972 (chromatographic centenary). - Zechmeister, L., Isis 36(2): 108-109. 1946. #### Handwriting Candollea 10: 30. 1946.