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His aristocratic father, Ivan Illitch Petrunkevitch, was a liberal member of the [[First Duma]] and founded the [[Constitutional Democratic Party]]. After finishing his studies in [[Moscow]] and in [[Freiburg]] under [[August Weismann]], Alexander settled in [[Yale]] in 1910, becoming a full professor in 1917. Apart from describing present-day species, he was a major figure in the [[Paleontology|study of fossil]] arachnids, including those in [[amber]] and from the [[Coal Measures]]. He also experimented with live specimens and worked on [[insects]]. |
His aristocratic father, Ivan Illitch Petrunkevitch, was a liberal member of the [[First Duma]] and founded the [[Constitutional Democratic Party]]. After finishing his studies in [[Moscow]] and in [[Freiburg]] under [[August Weismann]], Alexander settled in [[Yale]] in 1910, becoming a full professor in 1917. Apart from describing present-day species, he was a major figure in the [[Paleontology|study of fossil]] arachnids, including those in [[amber]] and from the [[Coal Measures]]. He also experimented with live specimens and worked on [[insects]]. |
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Professor Petrunkevitch's formulation of '''the principle of plural effects''' (= every cause is potentially capable of producing several effects) and '''the principle of the limits of possible oscillations''' (= the number and the nature of the effects which actually take place may vary within definite limitations only) is well known, both in biology and psychology.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Radosavljevich |first=Paul Rankov |title=Who are the Slavs? A contribution to race psychology. |publisher=R. G. Badger |year=1919 |location=Boston |pages=213}}</ref> |
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Petrunkevitch was elected to the [[National Academy of Sciences]] in 1954 and was also a member of the [[Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences]]. Throughout his career he remained politically active, trying to increase awareness of problems in Russia. He was also a skilled machinist and wrote two volumes of poetry (under the pseudonym Alexandr Jan-Ruban), and translated [[Pushkin]] into the English language, and [[Byron]] into Russian. He died in 1964.<ref>{{cite news |title=Died |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,940393-2,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025091701/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,940393-2,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 25, 2012 |quote=Alexander Petrunkevitch, 88, Ukrainian-born arachnologist, famed at Yale (where he taught from 1910 to 1944) for weekly teas and vivid lectures ("The lobster stomach, she pump all time long"), the 20th century's greatest authority on spiders, who devoted 25,000 hours to amassing a huge collection (including 180 "magnificent" live tarantulas), produced more than 100 books and monographs on scorpions, black widows, and other varieties, including nearly a dozen insects named after him; of pneumonia; in New Haven. |work=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=1964 |accessdate=2008-08-04 }}</ref> |
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A 1917 [[portrait miniature]] of Petrunkevitch by [[Margaret Foote Hawley]] is currently owned by the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]. |
A 1917 [[portrait miniature]] of Petrunkevitch by [[Margaret Foote Hawley]] is currently owned by the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]. |
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== Selected texts authored by Petrunkevitch == |
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* The role of the intellectuals in the liberating movement in Russia ("Russian Revolution," Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1918, pp. 8-21); |
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* The Russian Revolution (The Yale Alumni Weekly, 1917); |
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* Russian Revolution (Yale Review, July, 1917); |
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* The Political Crisis in Russia (Yale Alumni Weekly, Nov. 16, 1917). |
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Alexander Ivanovitch Petrunkevitch (Russian: Александр Иванович Петрункевич, December 22, 1875 in Plysky near Kyiv, now Ukraine – March 9, 1964 in New Haven) was an eminent Russian arachnologist of his time. From 1910 to 1939 he described over 130 spider species. One of his most famous essays was "The Spider and the Wasp." In it he uses effective word choices and some comic touch.
Alexander Ivanovitch Petrunkevitch | |
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Died | 9 March 1964 | (aged 88)
Known for | Description of over 130 spider species |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Arachnology, Biology |
Biography
His aristocratic father, Ivan Illitch Petrunkevitch, was a liberal member of the First Duma and founded the Constitutional Democratic Party. After finishing his studies in Moscow and in Freiburg under August Weismann, Alexander settled in Yale in 1910, becoming a full professor in 1917. Apart from describing present-day species, he was a major figure in the study of fossil arachnids, including those in amber and from the Coal Measures. He also experimented with live specimens and worked on insects.
Professor Petrunkevitch's formulation of the principle of plural effects (= every cause is potentially capable of producing several effects) and the principle of the limits of possible oscillations (= the number and the nature of the effects which actually take place may vary within definite limitations only) is well known, both in biology and psychology.[1]
Petrunkevitch was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1954 and was also a member of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. Throughout his career he remained politically active, trying to increase awareness of problems in Russia. He was also a skilled machinist and wrote two volumes of poetry (under the pseudonym Alexandr Jan-Ruban), and translated Pushkin into the English language, and Byron into Russian. He died in 1964.[2]
A 1917 portrait miniature of Petrunkevitch by Margaret Foote Hawley is currently owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [3]
Selected texts authored by Petrunkevitch
- The role of the intellectuals in the liberating movement in Russia ("Russian Revolution," Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1918, pp. 8-21);
- The Russian Revolution (The Yale Alumni Weekly, 1917);
- Russian Revolution (Yale Review, July, 1917);
- The Political Crisis in Russia (Yale Alumni Weekly, Nov. 16, 1917).
References
- ^ Radosavljevich, Paul Rankov (1919). Who are the Slavs? A contribution to race psychology. Boston: R. G. Badger. p. 213.
- ^ "Died". Time. 1964. Archived from the original on October 25, 2012. Retrieved 2008-08-04.
Alexander Petrunkevitch, 88, Ukrainian-born arachnologist, famed at Yale (where he taught from 1910 to 1944) for weekly teas and vivid lectures ("The lobster stomach, she pump all time long"), the 20th century's greatest authority on spiders, who devoted 25,000 hours to amassing a huge collection (including 180 "magnificent" live tarantulas), produced more than 100 books and monographs on scorpions, black widows, and other varieties, including nearly a dozen insects named after him; of pneumonia; in New Haven.
- ^ "Margaret Foote Hawley – Alexander Petrunkevitch – The Met". Retrieved 8 January 2017.
External links
- Short Bio
- Photograph[permanent dead link]
- Longer biography[permanent dead link]
- Works by Alexander Petrunkevitch at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Alexander Petrunkevitch at the Internet Archive
- Alexander Petrunkevitch — Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences
- 1875 births
- 1964 deaths
- 20th-century American zoologists
- Arachnologists
- 20th-century Ukrainian zoologists
- Russian nobility
- Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States
- Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- Yale University faculty
- American entomologists
- American entomologist stubs