general info about Theriologia Ukrainica

Novitates Theriologicae

ISSN 2709-491X (print) • ISSN 2709-4928 (online)

2025 • Vol. 18 • Contents of volume >>>


 

bibliography

download pdfZagorodniuk, I., S. Kharchuk. 2026. Famous travelers and professors of the XVII–XIX centuries and their contribution to the development of knowledge about the mammal fauna of Ukraine. Novitates Theriologicae, 18: 12–25. https://doi.org/10.53452/nt1804

   

title

Famous travelers and professors of the XVII–XIX centuries and their contribution to the development of knowledge about the mammal fauna of Ukraine

author(s)

Igor Zagorodniuk (National Museum of Natural History, NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0523-133X

abstract

The contribution of naturalists of the 17th–19th centuries towards the formation and development of knowledge about the mammal fauna of Ukraine, its taxonomy, biogeographical features, etc. is considered. The review includes a general overview of contributions (chronology and geography of research, key knowledge, including descriptions of new species) and information about the biography and key achievements of particular scientists. The review contains information about such researchers as Guillaume de Beauplan, Peter Simon Pallas, Johann Christian Erksleben, Johann Güldenstädt, Alexander Nordmann, and others. These researchers made important contributions in the form of monographs and separate articles describing the results of their travels through Ukraine and the fauna of certain regions, as well as a number of species new to science that they discovered in the fauna of Ukraine and neighbouring regions. The second part of the biographical section contains essays on next-wave researchers who were associated with Ukrainian universities. In total, there are 15 essays about researchers and their contributions.

language

Ukrainian, with English summary

   

references

Beolens, B., M. Watkins, M. Grayson. 2009. The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals. JHU Press, Baltimore, 1–574.
Beauplan, de. 1660. Description d'Ukranie, qui sont plusieurs provinces du Royaume de Pologne. Contenues depuis les confins de la Moscovie, insques aux limites de la Transilvanie. Ensemble leurs moeurs, façons de viures, et de faire la Guerre. A Rouen, Chez Jacques Cailloue. URL
Czernay, A. 1853. Fauna of Mammals and Birds. University Printing House, Kharkiv, 1–51. (Series: Fauna of the Kharkiv Province and Adjacent Areas, Compiled Mainly from Observations Made During Scientific Expeditions in 1848 and 1849. Issue 2). URL
Erxleben, J. C. P. 1777. Systema regni animalis per classes, ordines, genera, species, varietates: cvm synonymia et historia animalivm: Classis I. Mammalia. Lipsiae, Impensis Weygandianis, 1–636 + index. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.15933
Fedorowicz, Z., Z. Kawecki. 1962. Maksymilian Siła Nowicki (1826-1890). Zakład Narodowy im. Osslinskich, 1–135. URL
Fedorowicz, Z. 1971. Faunistyka w działalności Komisji Fizjograficznej Polskiej Akademii Umiejętności (1865–1939). Wrocław, Warszawa, Kraków, Gdańsk, Zakład Narodowy imienia Ossolińskich, Wydawnictwo PAN, 1–184. (Seria: Memorabilia Zoologica, Tom 22). URL
Gelfenbein, L. L. 1968. Alexander Vikentievich Chernay as a zoologist. Vestnik Zoologii, No. 3: 93–97. [Russian]
Güldenstädt, J. A. 1879. Diary of a journey to southern Russia by I. A. Güldenstädt, academician of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, in 1773–1774 (translated from German). Notes of the Odessa Society of History and Antiquities, 11: 180–228. URL
Güldenstädt, J. A. 1891. Travel diary of the Sloboda-Ukrainian province by Güldenstädt, academician of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, in August and September 1774. Kharkiv Collection (appendix to the Kharkiv Calendar for 1891), 5 (2): 85–153. URL
Güldenstädt, J. A. 1892. Diary of a journey through the Sloboda-Ukrainian province by Academician Güldenstädt of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences in August and September 1774 (translated from German). Kharkiv, 1–89. URL
Güldenstädt, J.-A. 2005. Journey through the Yelisavetgrad Province in 1774. Compiled by Pivovar A. V. Akademperiodyka, Kyiv, 1–48. [Ukrainian] URL
Iliukhin, Yu. 2018. Representatives of the order Chiroptera in the collection of the Museum of Nature at V. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Theriologia Ukrainica, 16: 77–84. [Ukrainian]http://doi.org/10.15407/pts2018.16.077
Kessler, K. F. 1851. Proceedings of the Commission to Description of the Provinces of Kyiv School District. Mammals. Kyiv, 1–88. (Series: Natural History of the Provinces of Kyiv Educational District; Vol. 1: Zoology). [Russian]
Kessler, C. 1860. Zoological expedition to the northern coast of the Black Sea and Crimea in 1858. Kyiv, 1–248. [Russian]
Kessler, K. F. 1882. Report on a journey along the Dnipro in 1844. Proceedings of the Petersburg Society of Naturalists, 13 (1): 55–72. [Russian]
Klemme, H. F., M. Kuehn (eds). 2016. The Bloomsbury dictionary of eighteenth-century German philosophers. Bloomsbury Publishing, 1–880.
Korobchenko, M., I. Zagorodniuk. 2009. Taxonomy and levels of differentiation in mole-rats (Spalacidae) of the fauna of Ukraine and adjacent countries. Scientific Bulletin of the Uzhhorod University. Series Biology, 26: 13–26. [Ukrainian]https://shorturl.at/bcHS4
Kovalchuk, O. M. 2013. Fossil Vertebrates of Ukraine. Bibliography (1829-2012). Universytetska knyga, Sumy, 1–232. ISBN 978-966-680-678-2 [Ukrainian]URL
Kowalska, K. 1981. Pietruski (z Siemuszowej Pietruski) Stanisław Konstanty (1811–1874). Polski Słownik Biograficzny, 26 (2): 182–184.
Mazurmovych, B. M. 1972. The Development of Zoology in Ukraine. Published by Kyiv University, Kyiv, 1–229. [Russian]
Nikolsky, A. M. 1883. Journey to the Altai Mountains in the summer of 1882. Proceedings of the St. Petersburg Society of Naturalists, 14 (1): 150–218 [165–170]. [Russian]
Nikolsky, A. M. 1899. Reptiles, amphibies, et poissons, recueillis pendant le voyage de Mr. N. A. Zaroudny en 1898 dans la Perse. Annuaire du Musée zoologique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg, (4): 375–417. [Russian]
Nikolsky, A. M. 1891. Vertebrate Animals of Crimea. St. Petersburg, 1–484. (Proceedings of the Imperial Academy of Sciences; Supplement No. 4 to Volume 68). [Russian]
Nordmann, A. 1840. Observations sur la Faune Pontique. Mammalia. E. Bourdin et Cet., Paris, 1–65. (Series: Voyage dans la Russie méridionale et la Crimee, par la Hongrie, la Valachie et la Moldavie, exécuté en 1837 par A. de Demidoff; Tome 3).
Nordmann, A. 1858. Palaeontologie — Sudrussland. Helsingfors, 2: 1–248.
Nowicki-Siła, M. 1876. Zoologia obrazowa dla klas wyższych szkół średnich. W drukarni Uniwersyteckiej pod zarządem Ignacego Stelcla, Kraków, 1–278 + I–XXVIII.URL
Pallas, P. S. 1811. Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica, sistens omnium animalium in extenso Imperio Rossico et adjacentibus maribus observatorum recensionem, domicilia, mores et descriptiones, anatomen atque icones plurimorum. Acadamiae Scientiarum Impress, 1: 1–568. URL
Paslavska, T. M. 1999. Alexander Zavadsky as an ornithologist (1798–1868). Berkut, 8 (2): 220–221. [Ukrainian]https://bit.ly/3zNl0Sn
Pavlinov, I. Y., O. L. Rossolimo. 1987. Taxonomy of mammals of the USSR. Moscow Univ. Press, Moscow, 1–285. (Series: Collected Works of the Zool. Mus. MSU; Vol. 25). [Russian]
Pietruski, S. K. 1853. Historia naturalna zwierząt ssących dzikich galicyjskich [etc.]. Drukarnia Zakładu Narodowego imenia Ossolińskich, Lwów, 1–100.https://goo.gl/5PCY5i
Pietruski, S. K. 1869. O niektórych rzadszych krajowych zwierzętach ssących. Lwów, 1–58. URL
Pokornyi, A. 1874. Zoology with Drawings for the Lower Classes of Secondary Schools. Translated into Ruthenian by M. Polyansky. Prague, 1–388. [Ukrainian] URL
Puzanov, I. I. 1969. Alexander Davydovich Nordmann (1803–1866). Nauka, Moscow, 1–83.
Reshetnyk, E. G. 1941. Materials to study of systematics, geographic distribution and ecology of mole rats (Spalacinae) in the Ukrainian RSR. Proceedings of the Zoological Museum, 24: 23–95. [Ukrainian]
Rohn, M. 2017. Die wissenschaftliche Erschließung des Zarenreichs. Der Beitrag Alexander von Middendorffs in Wort und Bild. Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, 66 (4): 517–537. URL
Smolii, V. A. (editor-in-chief). 2003. Encyclopedia of Ukrainian History: Vol. 1: A-B. Naukova Dumka, Kyiv, 1–688. [Ukrainian]
Verkhratsky, I. 1904. Mykhailo Polyansky (posthumous mention). Proceedings of the Shevchenko Scientific Society. Mathematical-Naturalistic-Medical Section, 10: 1–6. [Ukrainian]
Zagorodniuk, I. V. 1992. A review of the recent Muroidea (Mammalia) described from the territory of Ukraine (1777–1990). Vestnik zoologii, № 2: 39–48. [Russian]
Zagorodniuk, I. V., O. O. Fedorchenko. 1995. Allopatric species among rodent group Spermophilus suslicus (Mammalia). Vestnik zoologii, 29 (5–6): 49–58. [Russian]URL
Zagorodniuk, I. V. 1996. Taxonomic revision and diagnostics of the rodent genus Mus from Eastern Europe. Communication 1. Vestnik zoologii, 30 (1–2): 28–45. [Russian] URL
Zagorodniuk, I. 2007. Small mammals of the natural reserve ‘Kamiani Mohyly’: analysis of fauna composition and historical changes of communities. Visnyk of the Lviv University. Series Biology, 44: 71–79. [Ukrainian] URL
Zagorodniuk, I. V. 2009a. Taxonomy and nomenclature of the non-Muroidea rodents of Ukraine. Proceedings of Zoological Museum. Kyiv, 40: 147–185. [Ukrainian]
Zagorodniuk, I. V. 2009b. Mammal of the North-Eastern Ukraine: changes of fauna and views about fauna composition since review by O. Czernay (1853) to the present. Communication 1. Proceedings of the National Museum of Natural History, 6–7: 172–213. [Ukrainian] URL
Zagorodniuk, I. V.2010. Mammal of the North-Eastern Ukraine: changes of fauna and views about fauna composition since review by Ol. Czernay (1853) to the present. Communication 2. Proceedings of the National Museum of Natural History, 8: 33–60. [Ukrainian] URL
Zagorodniuk, I. V., I. G. Emelianov. 2012. Taxonomy and nomenclature of mammals of Ukraine. Proceedings of the National Museum of Natural History, 10: 5–30. [Ukrainian]
Zagorodniuk, I. 2022. Zoological museums and mammal collections in Kyiv for the last two centuries: history, values, and prospects. Geo&Bio, 22: 37–62. [Ukrainian]http://doi.org/10.15407/gb2205
Zagorodniuk, I., S. Kharchuk. 2022. Bats of Galicia and Bukovina in the 1830–1850s: composition and changes of fauna for 180 years. Theriologia Ukrainica, 24: 28–50. [Ukrainian]http://doi.org/10.15407/TU2405
Zagorodniuk, I. 2023. ‘Ssavtsi’ (Mammalia): the story of a 100-year-old term. Proceedings of the State Natural History Museum (Lviv), 39: 151–160. [Ukrainian] https://doi.org/10.36885/nzdpm.2023.39.151-160
Zagorodniuk, I.  2025. Zoological collections during revolutions, reforms, and wars: Ukraine’s experience in the 20th and 21st centuries. Geo&Bio, 27: 14–60. [Ukrainian]http://doi.org/10.53452/gb2704
Zawadzki, A. 1840. Saugetiere. Mammalia. Sssace. In: Zawadzki, A. Fauna der Galizisch Bukowinischen Wirbethiere. Schmeizerbarts Verlag., Stuttgart, 13–35.

date

online: 30.01.2026; print: 30.01.2026


 


to main page of journal >>>

created: 25.01.2026
updated: 25.01.2026

Locations of visitors to this page