Constantin Andreas von Regel ( lt, Konstantinas Regelis; 10 August 1890, in

Saint Petersburg 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 ...

– 22 May 1970, in

Zürich , neighboring_municipalities = Adliswil, Dübendorf, Fällanden, Kilchberg, Maur, Oberengstringen, Opfikon, Regensdorf, Rümlang, Schlieren, Stallikon, Uitikon, Urdorf, Wallisellen, Zollikon , twintowns = Kunming, San Francisco Zürich () i ...

) was a Russian and Lithuanian

horticulturalist Horticulture is the branch of agriculture that deals with the art, science, technology, and business of plant cultivation. It includes the cultivation of fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, herbs, sprouts, mushrooms, algae, flowers, seaweeds and no ...

and botanist. He was a grandson of

Eduard August von Regel Eduard August von Regel (sometimes Edward von Regel or Edward de Regel or Édouard von Regel), Russian: Эдуард Август Фон Регель; (born 13 August 1815 in Gotha; died 15 April 1892 in St. Petersburg) was a German horticultura ...

. In 1922 he was named head of the department of botany at the

Kaunas University Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) ( lt, Vytauto Didžiojo universitetas (VDU)) is a public university in Kaunas, Lithuania. The university was founded in 1922 during the interwar period as an alternate national university. Initially it was known ...

. During the following year he became director of the newly established botanical garden at Kaunas. He was the author of approximately 150 scientific books and articles, including significant works in the fields of

geobotany Phytogeography (from Greek φυτόν, ''phytón'' = "plant" and γεωγραφία, ''geographía'' = "geography" meaning also distribution) or botanical geography is the branch of biogeography that is concerned with the geographic distribution ...

and

phytogeography Phytogeography (from Greek φυτόν, ''phytón'' = "plant" and γεωγραφία, ''geographía'' = "geography" meaning also distribution) or botanical geography is the branch of biogeography that is concerned with the geographic distribution ...

Selected works

* ''Die Vegetationsverhältnisse der Halbinsel Kola'', 1935. * ''Florae Graecae Notulae'' 1941. * ''Pflanzen in Europa liefern Rohstoffe'', 1944. * ''Die Klimaänderung der Gegenwart in ihrer Beziehung zur Landschaft'', 1957. * ''Die Rohstoffe des Pflanzenreichs'' (original author,

Julius Wiesner Dr. Julius Ritter von Wiesner (20 January 1838 – 9 October 1916) was a professor of botany at the University of Vienna, a specialist in the physiology and anatomy of plants. In 1870 he became a professor at the forestry academy of Mariabru ...

), 1962.OCLC Classify
publications

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Regel, Constantin Andreas Von 1890 births 1970 deaths Soviet botanists Lithuanian botanists Academic staff of Vytautas Magnus University