Nedeljko Košanin

Nedeljko Koshanin (Čečina / Vionica, near Ivanjica, Principality of Serbia, 13 October 1874 - Graz, Austria, 22 March 1934) was a scientist biologist, university professor and academic at the Serbian Royal Academy, now the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He was the manager of the Jevremovac Botanical Institute and Botanical Garden of the University of Belgrade He initiated the publication of the Gazette of the Botanical Institute and Botanical Gardens, which had collaborated with over 90 botanical institutions worldwide. He described many new plant species on his own or in collaboration with prominent botanists in the world, and foreign and domestic researchers named his newly discovered plant species out of respect for his work. After the "Josif Pančić era", his work marked the epoch (1918-1934) in the development of botany in the country, known as the "Košanin era". He was politically active. For over thirty years he actively participated in the labour movement and fought for national and labour rights.

Biography He was born on a farm in the village of Čečina, and according to some sources in the neighbouring Vionica near Ivanjica to parents Stana and Stevan. His parents enrolled him in an elementary school in Pridvorica, ten kilometres away from home, which he completed in 1887. After that, he enrolled in the Užice Grammar School, but very soon after that, he transferred to the First Belgrade Grammar School, and graduated in 1895. He also graduated from the Department of Chemistry at the Grandes écoles (Velika škola) in Belgrade four years later (1899). As a socialist, a member of the Serbian Social Democratic Party, he could not get a job in the civil service. He rented a steam mill in Rakovica and at one time engaged in the milling industry. At the end of 1899, however, he managed to join the civil service and for a short time worked as a professor-traineeand a substitute teacher at the Second Belgrade Gymnasium. He left the civil service to pursue his studies abroad. He spent 1900–1902 in Leipzig at the Laboratory for Plant Physiology, and then, in 1903–1905, as a botany assistant at the Leipzig College of Medicine, with the German plant…Citește mai mult

Professor, scholar, academic In 1912 he became an associate professor, and after his captivity in 1921 he was a full professor at the University of Belgrade and the director of the Jevremovac Botanical Institute and Botanical Garden. In the school year 1927/28 he served as the Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy.He examined the origin of Dajic Lake on Golija, together with Josif Pančić and Jovan Cvijić. He has written monographs on Lake Dajicand Vlasina Lake (1910).

Elementi vlasinske flore (1910) Spisak koleoptera u Muzeju srpske zemlje (1904)

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