Evgenii Vladimirovich Wulff ( Russian Евгений Владимирович Вульф) (1885–1941) was a

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n Soviet biologist,

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and

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. Wulff was born in

and studied at

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1903-1906. He obtained his

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in biology from the

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, in 1909. He then returned to Crimea and took up a position at the famous Nikitsky Botanical Garden near

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. He worked there 1914-1926, undertaking studies of the vegetation and flora of

and founding the multi-volume ''Flora Taurica''. 1921-1926, he also was professor at the Tavrida University of Crimea. He then moved to the Vavilov All-Union Institute of Crop Plants in

Leningrad Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

to expand his scientific studies. He took a particular interest in the history of plant geography. He published a monograph on this topic in 1932, which was translated to

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and published in the West posthumously. This book has been hailed as one of the twentieth century's key writings in the evolution of plant geography . In 1934, he was made professor at the Pokrovsky Pedagogical Institute, where he taught botany parallel to his research at the Vavilov Institute. In 1936, he published his ''Historical Geography of Plants'', of which an expanded version was published posthumously. Wulff died in 1941 during the

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- killed by an exploding bomb. The leguminous shrub Chamaecytisus wulffii was named to his honour by Vitaly Krechetovich in 1945.

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Chrono-Biographical Sketch with portrait photograph
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wulff, E. V. 1885 births 1941 deaths Scientists from Simferopol People from Simferopolsky Uyezd 20th-century Russian botanists Russian ecologists Soviet botanists Soviet ecologists Academic staff of Tavrida National V.I. Vernadsky University Imperial Moscow University alumni Victims of the Siege of Leningrad Deaths by airstrike during World War II Academic staff of Herzen University