Maria Makarevych

Maria Makarevych
Born(1906-12-04)4 December 1906
Moshny, Cherkasy Raion, Cherkasy Oblast (now Ukraine)
Died24 February 1989(1989-02-24) (aged 82)
Kyiv
EducationKyiv Institute of Public Education
Known forStudying lichens of the Carpathian region
Scientific career
FieldsBotany, lichenology
WorkplacesUkrainian Research Institute of Peat Industry, Research Institute of Agro-Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry
Makar.

Maria Florianivna Makarevych (1906–1989) was a Soviet botanist and lichenologist noted for studying lichens of the Carpathian region, and for publishing multiple influential monographs. The genus Marfloraea is named in her honor. The standard author abbreviation Makar. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.

Biography

Maria Makarevich was born on 4 December 1906 in the village of Moshny, Cherkasy Raion, Cherkasy Oblast (now Ukraine). Her father was zemstvo doctor Florian Feliksovich Makarevych, her mother, Maria Tychinin, was a daughter of a merchant. In 1921, she graduated from a labor school in Cherkasy, in 1925 from an agricultural vocational school and in 1926 she entered the Kyiv Institute of Public Education. In 1932, she started working at the Ukrainian Research Institute of Peat Industry. In 1934, she became an employee of the Research Institute of Agro-Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry. In 1946, Makarevych get the degree of Candidate of Biological Sciences. In 1964, she became a doctor of biological sciences and moved to the position of a senior researcher in the department of spore plants.

She was married and had two sons. She died in Kyiv on 24 February 1989.

References

  1. ↑ Kondratyuk, Sergey Ya (2007). "In Memoriam: Maria F. Makarevych, Dr. Sc., Professor (4 December 1906 - 24 February 1989)". The Bryologist. 110 (3): 480–481. doi:10.1639/0007-2745(2007)110[480:IMMFMD]2.0.CO;2. JSTOR 20110877. S2CID 86080707.
  2. ↑ Kondratyuk, Sergii Y.; Lőkös, László; Kim, Jung A.; Kondratiuk, Anna S.; Jeong, Min-Hye; Jang, Seol Hwa; Oh, Soon-Ok; Hur, Jae-Seoun (2015). "New members of the Pertusariales (Ascomycota) proved by combined phylogenetic analysis" (PDF). Studia Botanica Hungarica. 46 (2): 95–110. doi:10.17110/StudBot.2015.46.2.95. The genus Marfloraea is named after an outstanding Ukrainian lichenologist Maria Florianivna Makarevych (1907–1982), who worked in Kyiv, Ukraine (i.e. after her nick-name "MarFlor", well-known among Eurasian lichenologists of the 20th century), and made important contributions to the revision of the Pertusariaceae, Lecanoraceae and other families of crustose North Eurasian lichens as well as to the geography of lichens in general.
  3. ↑ International Plant Names Index. Makar.
  4. ↑ Dzjuba, Ivan Mychajlovyč, ed. (2016). Encyklopedija sučasnoï Ukraïny. Tom 16: Kuz-Lev / holovna redakcijna kolehija XVI tomu: Dzjuba, I.M. [und viele weitere]. Kyïv: Instytut Encyklopedyčnych Doslidženʹ Nacionalʹnoï akademiï Nauk Ukraïny. ISBN 978-966-02-7998-8.