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Born Nov. 1, 1814, in Freiburg; died July 23 (Aug. 4), 1870, in St. Petersburg. Russian botanist. Member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1853).In 1836, Ruprekht graduated from the University of Prague. He settled in Russia in 1839, working first as an employee and later (from 1855) as director of the Botanical Museum of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. He traveled in the ...

Born Nov. 1, 1814, in Freiburg; died July 23 (Aug. 4), 1870, in St. Petersburg. Russian botanist. Member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1853).In 1836, Ruprekht graduated from the University of Prague. He settled in Russia in 1839, working first as an employee and later (from 1855) as director of the Botanical Museum of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. He traveled in the ...

Born Nov. 1, 1814, in Freiburg; died July 23 (Aug. 4), 1870, in St. Petersburg. Russian botanist. Member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1853).In 1836, Ruprekht graduated from the University of Prague. He settled in Russia in 1839, working first as an employee and later (from 1855) as director of the Botanical Museum of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. He traveled in the ...

... Nadson, E. L. Regel’, F. I. Ruprekht, V. N. Sukachev, G. I. Tanfil’ev, B. A. Fedchenko, A. P. Shennikov, B. K. Shishkin, and A. A. Iachevskii.The institute’s activities are basically centered on the study of USSR flora, the study of the vegetation cover of the USSR, the formulation of the theoretical principles of geobotany and biogeocenology, the study of ...

... origin of chernozems (F. I. Ruprekht, V. V. Dokuchaev, and others) links their formation to the establishment and development of meadow-steppe and steppe-grass vegetation. This theory was expounded in great detail by V. V. Dokuchaev in Russian Chernozem. (1883), in which Dokuchaev proved that chernozems formed as a result of the close interaction of grassy ...