A. L. Takhtajan

  • Name

    Armen L. Takhtajan

  • Dates

    10 Jun 1910 - 13 Nov 2009

  • Specialities

    Pteridophytes, Spermatophytes

  • Roles

    Author, Determiner, Collector

  • Movement Details

    Russia, Armenia

  • Notes

    Collector Notes: LE

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    From Flora of North America Newsletter 23(2): 23-24. 2009.
    Armen Takhtajan
    1910–2009

    Armen Leonovich Takhtajan, one of the greatest
    botanists of our time, passed away on November
    13, 2009, at the age of 99. He was born June 10, 1910,
    in Shusha, NagornoKarabakh, in the Southern
    Caucasus. He had just published his revised classification, Flowering Plants
    (Springer 2009), in which he
    synthesized his own vast
    knowledge of plant evolution
    acquired over 60 years of
    study and much of the phylogenetic information that had
    been published in recent
    years by others. He graduated from the Institute of
    Subtropical Cultivation in Tblisi, Georgia, in 1932,
    received his Ph.D. in Leningrad in 1938, and his Dr.Sci.
    at Yerevan State University in 1943. He was on staff at
    various institutions in Yerevan until 1949 when he
    joined the faculty at Leningrad State University (1949 to
    1960), after which he joined the staff of the Komarov
    Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences,
    Copyright 1977 Hunt Institute for Botanical
    Documentation. All rights reserved.

  • Collections

    Botanical Collections