Pavel Mitrofanov
botanist
Pavel Ilyich Mitrofanov (Russian: Павел Ильич Митрофанов; 3 July 1857, Arkhangelsk — 29 December 1920, Rostov-on-Don) was a Russian Empire embryologist and histologist. Doctor of Zoology. Rector of Samara Polytechnic Institute in 1915―1917 and of Don University in 1919―1920.
Biography
Pavel Ilyich Mitrofanov was born on 3 July 1857 (21 June Old Style) in Arkhangelsk in the family of a government official. In 1877 he graduated with honours from the Arkhangelsk High School and in the same year he enrolled to the Natural Sciences Department of the Physics and Mathematics Faculty of the Imperial Moscow University. He graduated from the university in 1881 and began working as a teacher in Moscow. Privat-docent since 1886. Since 1896 he was a Professor of the Imperial University of Warsaw.
In 1915, after the outbreak of World War I, the University of Warsaw was evacuated first to Moscow, and then to Rostov-on-Don. Mitrofanov himself chose to accept the proposal of Aleksandr Naumov, Marshal of Samara Nobility to head the newly formed Samara Polytechnic Institute (now Samara State Technical University), although he also remained the head of the Department of Comparative Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, and also was in charge of the zoo laboratory and the zoological cabinet at the evacuated Warsaw University.
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