Sergei Alexandrovich Rachinskiĭ (Сергей Александрович Рачинский)
1833–1902
Russian botanist and educator. Received an advanced degree in botany in Moscow in 1859 with a thesis on movement in plants; professor of plant physiology, Moscow, 1859–67. Translated Origin into Russian, 1864. Resigned from the university for political reasons. Returned to Tatevo, Smolensk, his birthplace, where he founded a school for village childeren and contributed to the development of pedagogy. Corresponding member, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1891.
Sources
Bol’shaya entsiklopediya
Rogers 1988, p. 257 n.
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Rogers, James Allen. 1988. Russia: social sciences. In The comparative reception of Darwinism, edited by Thomas F. Glick. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.
