Mikhail Menzbier

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Mikhail Menzbier in 1911

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Menzbier (Russian: Михаил Александрович Мензбир; 23 October 1855 – 10 October 1935) was a Russian and Soviet

Moscow University
and promoted an evolutionary view of faunistics in the Soviet Union. He also studied the birds of prey, published a textbook of zoology, and a two volume work on the birds of Russia.

Life and work

Menzbier (left most bearded) with colleagues and students at Moscow University in 1930

Menzbir was born in

V. B. Banjkovsky, and V.G. Geptner. Menzbier wrote a textbook on zoology in 1887 which went into several editions. He also published a two volume work on the birds of Russia. [1][2][3][4]

Menzbier was a founding member of Russia's first ornithological body, the Kessler Ornithological Society. Menzbier was a supporter of

American Ornithologists' Union. He is commemorated in the names of Menzbier's marmot and the Menzbier Ornithological Society.[5]

References

  1. ISBN 978-0-8018-9304-9
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  2. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919X.1936.tb03656.x
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  3. ^ Матвеев, Б.С. (2012). "Михаил Александрович Мензбир (1855-1935)". Русский орнитологический журнал. 21 (819): 2929–2935.
  4. ^ Иванов., А. П. (2017). "Из коллекции профессора Мензбира". СБОРНИК НАУЧНЫХ ТРУДОВ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОГО БИОЛОГИЧЕСКОГО МУЗЕЯ ИМЕНИ К. А. ТИМИРЯЗЕВА. V ВЫПУСК. К 95-летию музея (in Russian). Moscow. pp. 176–189.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  5. ISBN 0-19-505830-5
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