Aleksandr Prokofyevich Markevich
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Aleksandr Prokofyevich Markevich (6 (19) March 1905 – 23 April 1999) was a Ukrainian
zoologist
, he was a prolific Ukrainian helminthologist/copepodologist. Academician of the Ukrainian SSR, Professor, Doctor of Sciences.
and simultaneously at the biological station of the Ukrainian SSR Academy of Sciences situated on the Dnieper river.
His keen interest in the parasites of fishes led him to work at the Ichthyological Institute of the Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Leningrad (now the Research Institute of the Lake and River Fish Industry), where he completed his post-graduate studies under the guidance of Professor V. A. Dogel. In the thirties a team of scientists of the Laboratory of Fish Diseases headed by V. A. Dogel laid the foundations of the Sovjet ichthyoparasitology. At this laboratory the young A. Markevich began to study the then little known and very complicated group Copepoda parasitica and with extraordinary diligence and perseverance treated the fauna of this group living in lakes Ladoga and Onega, in the Caspian and Azov seas and in a number of smaller water reservoirs. During his stay in Leningrad he also dealt with other groups of fish parasites.
In 1935 he returned to Kiev where he at first headed the Invertebrate Morphology Department of the Zoological Institute, the Ukrainian SSR Academy of Sciences, but in 1937 he became the Head of the newly established Parasitological department of that Institute.
Proceeding from a series of solid scientific works on fish parasites (ichtyoparasitology) he formulated theoretical foundamentals of complex studies on parasites of aquatic animals (hydroparasitology). As a scientific programme he pointed out studies on the objective patterns of life and development of parasites of aquatic animals, studies on their influence on host and vice versa, and studies on their dependence on abiotic and biotic factors.
The theory of parasitocenosis, formulated by E. N. Pavlovsky, has found a worthy follower in A. P. Markevich. Attracted by the Pavlovsky's concept of parasitocenosis he analyzed new facts obtained by parasitologists and microbiologists since Pavlovsky's publications, wrote several papers concerned with this problem and set up the task of parasitocenology as "elucidation of objective patterns of life of parasitosymbiocenoses as well as biocenotic groupings of free-living parasite stages, in order to elaborate methods for directing the formation processes of parasitic communities" (Markevich, Vestnik zoologii, 1974, №1, p. 6).
A. P. Markevich influence on the research of parasite fauna of the Ukrainian SSR was great. He created a school of parasitologists and incited interest of a number of zoologists and botanists in the research of the Carpathian fauna and flora. For several years he was Vice-president and later President of the Biological Sciences Department of the Ukrainian SSR Academy of Sciences. He actively participated in scientific congresses and symposia in the USSR and abroad. He also made outstanding contributions to the research of parasite fauna of fishes in Egypt, where he worked as expert and professor at the Cairo University
(1964–1965 and 1966 to 1967).
He actively participated in scientific congresses and symposia in the USSR and abroad. He also made outstanding contributions to the research of parasite fauna of fishes in Egypt, where he worked as expert and professor at the Cairo University
(1964–1965 and 1966 to 1967).
For helminths, he is honored by Lopastoma markevichi Kurochkin et Korotaeva, in Polyanskij, 1982;
And also in the myxozoan name Ceratomyxa markewitchi Iskov et Karataev, 1984; Clariidae Kutikova, Markevich et Spiridonov, 1990 (Rotifera)
Ukrainians
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zoologist
Zoology
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, he was a prolific Ukrainian helminthologist/copepodologist. Academician of the Ukrainian SSR, Professor, Doctor of Sciences.
Biography
Aleksandr Prokofyevich Markevich was born 6 (19) March 1905 in the village Ploskoye of the Kiev region (Ukrainian). His father - Prokofiy Matveevich Markevich — served as a parish clerk in a rural church. His mother - Maria Ieremeevna Bordashevskaya took a place from family of the impoverished Polish gentry. Family of future known worldwide scientist was religious. Already during his studies at the Pedagogical technical school (1921–1925) in Belaya Tserkov he became engaged in the research on ichthyology. He continued his studies at the Kiev University where he worked in the laboratory of I. I. SchmalhausenIvan Ivanovich Schmalhausen
Ivan Ivanovich Schmalhausen was a Russian and Soviet zoologist and evolutionist. He was one of the central figures in the development of the modern evolutionary synthesis.__FORCETOC__-Biography:...
and simultaneously at the biological station of the Ukrainian SSR Academy of Sciences situated on the Dnieper river.
His keen interest in the parasites of fishes led him to work at the Ichthyological Institute of the Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Leningrad (now the Research Institute of the Lake and River Fish Industry), where he completed his post-graduate studies under the guidance of Professor V. A. Dogel. In the thirties a team of scientists of the Laboratory of Fish Diseases headed by V. A. Dogel laid the foundations of the Sovjet ichthyoparasitology. At this laboratory the young A. Markevich began to study the then little known and very complicated group Copepoda parasitica and with extraordinary diligence and perseverance treated the fauna of this group living in lakes Ladoga and Onega, in the Caspian and Azov seas and in a number of smaller water reservoirs. During his stay in Leningrad he also dealt with other groups of fish parasites.
In 1935 he returned to Kiev where he at first headed the Invertebrate Morphology Department of the Zoological Institute, the Ukrainian SSR Academy of Sciences, but in 1937 he became the Head of the newly established Parasitological department of that Institute.
Markevich, A. P. as scientist. Publications
- A. P. Markevich was one of the first Soviet parasitologists who began a systematic research of fishes in the fishpond culture. He was the first to publish in the world literature the statement that the dangerous fish parasite Chilodonella cyprini reproduces massively in the winter and not in the summer, as supposed earlier.
- Ergasilus briani Markevich, 1932
- Paraergasilus rylovi Markevich, 1937
- Ergasilus auritus Markewitsch, 1940
- Ergasilus anchoratus Markewitsch, 1946
- After return to Kiev (1935) Markevich A. P. continued his ichthyoparasitological investigations. In 1951 he published an extensive monograph on the parasite fauna of freshwater fishes of the Ukrainian SSR. This monograph received a high response in the USSR and abroad. In 1963 it was published in English under the title "Parasitic Fauna of Freshwater Fish of the Ukrainian SSR". He continued to be actively interested in the research of Copepoda parasitica and his latest monograph on parasitic Copepoda of fishes in the USSR was published for the Smithsonian InstitutionSmithsonian InstitutionThe Smithsonian Institution is an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by funds from its endowment, contributions, and profits from its retail operations, concessions, licensing activities, and magazines...
and the National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C. by the Indian National Scientific Documentation Centre, Hillside Road, New Delhi (1976).
Proceeding from a series of solid scientific works on fish parasites (ichtyoparasitology) he formulated theoretical foundamentals of complex studies on parasites of aquatic animals (hydroparasitology). As a scientific programme he pointed out studies on the objective patterns of life and development of parasites of aquatic animals, studies on their influence on host and vice versa, and studies on their dependence on abiotic and biotic factors.
The theory of parasitocenosis, formulated by E. N. Pavlovsky, has found a worthy follower in A. P. Markevich. Attracted by the Pavlovsky's concept of parasitocenosis he analyzed new facts obtained by parasitologists and microbiologists since Pavlovsky's publications, wrote several papers concerned with this problem and set up the task of parasitocenology as "elucidation of objective patterns of life of parasitosymbiocenoses as well as biocenotic groupings of free-living parasite stages, in order to elaborate methods for directing the formation processes of parasitic communities" (Markevich, Vestnik zoologii, 1974, №1, p. 6).
A. P. Markevich influence on the research of parasite fauna of the Ukrainian SSR was great. He created a school of parasitologists and incited interest of a number of zoologists and botanists in the research of the Carpathian fauna and flora. For several years he was Vice-president and later President of the Biological Sciences Department of the Ukrainian SSR Academy of Sciences. He actively participated in scientific congresses and symposia in the USSR and abroad. He also made outstanding contributions to the research of parasite fauna of fishes in Egypt, where he worked as expert and professor at the Cairo University
Cairo University
Cairo University is a public university located in Giza, Egypt.The university was founded on December 21, 1908, as the result of an effort to establish a national center for educational thought...
(1964–1965 and 1966 to 1967).
- Romanovsky, A., "Occurrence of Ergasilus briani Markewitsch 1932 in Czechoslovakia. Nález Ergasilus briani Markewitsch 1932 (Copepoda, Ergasilidae) v Cechoslovenska" // Vestník Ceskoslovenské Zoologické Spolecnosti, Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemoslovenicae, 1955, Volume: 19(2):187-189, figs. 1-5
- Fryer, G. & C. Andrews, 1983, "The parasitic copepod Ergasilus briani Markewitsch in Yorkshire: an addition to the British Fauna". Serie: Naturalist, Leeds, 108, no. 964. 7-10
- Ho, J.S., N.R. Khamees & F.T. Mhaisen - Ergasilid copepods (Poecilostomatoida) parasitic on the mullet Liza abu in Iraq, with the description of a new species of Paraergasilus Markevich, 1937 // Systematic Parasitology, 1996, Volume: 33(2):79-87
- Nie, P., "Population and microhabitat of Ergasilus anchoratus Markewitsch (Poecilostomoida: Ergasilidae) on gills of oriental sheatfish, Silurus asotus" // Acta Hydrobiologica Sinica / Shuisheng Shengwu Xuebao Volume: 22(1):48-53. (iii.1998; in Chinese)
- Hoda El-Rashidy; Geoffrey A. Boxshall - Biogeography and phylogeny of Paraergasilus Markevich, 1937 (Copepoda: Ergasilidae) with descriptions of two new species from the gills of grey mullet, Journal of Natural History, Volume 35, Issue 12 December 2001, pp. 1807–1819
International Cooperation
- In 1958 is a member of delegation of the USSR on XV International zoological congress in London (Great Britain)
- Markevich, A. P., 1959, "Parasitic copepods of fishes in the U.S.S.R. and the peculiarities of their distribution", In: Proceedings of the XV. International Congress of Zoology (London), Volume: : 669-671;
- In 1959 an academician A. P. Markevich visited BulgariaBulgariaBulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...
, where in the University of Sofia read lectures on most actual questions of phylogenia of invertebrates animals for the Bulgarian zoologists
- In 1961 is a participant of VII Convention of Polish parasitology society in Olsztyn (Poland)
- Markevich, A.P., On the phylogenetic relations in Copepoda parasitica. Filogeneticheskie vzaimootnosheniya paraziticheskikh veslonogikh rakoobraznykh (Copepoda parasitica). In: Moore, J.A. (ed.). Proceedings of the XVI International Congress of Zoology, Washington, 20–27 August 1963 Volume: 1:52. (Have Russian abstract and English translation)
- In 1964 is a participant of I International congress of parasitologists in Rome (Italy)
- In 1964 -1965 he is professor of zoology department of faculty of science at the Cairo UniversityCairo UniversityCairo University is a public university located in Giza, Egypt.The university was founded on December 21, 1908, as the result of an effort to establish a national center for educational thought...
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- In 1965 is a participant of VI Veterinary convention in Cairo
- In 1966 - 1967 is an expert on questions of parasitologyParasitologyParasitology is the study of parasites, their hosts, and the relationship between them. As a biological discipline, the scope of parasitology is not determined by the organism or environment in question, but by their way of life...
in the National scientific center of the Arabic Republic of EgyptEgyptEgypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
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- In 1967 - A. P. Markevich selected the honoured member of Polish society of parasitologists
- In 1968 is a participant of XIII International entomological congress in Moscow
- In 1969 - he selected the member of Academy of zoology of IndiaIndiaIndia , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
- In 1969 is a participant of III International congress of protozoologists in Leningrad
- In 1969 - selected the member of the International commission of protozoology
- In 1970 is a chapter of delegation of soviet scientists on II International congress of parasitologists in Washington (USA)
- In 1971 is a participant of XVIII International congress of limnology in Leningrad
- In 1973 is a participant of IV International congress of protozoologists in Klermon-Ferrane (France)
He actively participated in scientific congresses and symposia in the USSR and abroad. He also made outstanding contributions to the research of parasite fauna of fishes in Egypt, where he worked as expert and professor at the Cairo University
Cairo University
Cairo University is a public university located in Giza, Egypt.The university was founded on December 21, 1908, as the result of an effort to establish a national center for educational thought...
(1964–1965 and 1966 to 1967).
- A. P. Markevich entered in the complement of editorial boards of magazines - "Angewandte Parasitologie" (DDR) and "Folia parasitologica" (CSSRCzechoslovak Socialist RepublicThe Czechoslovak Socialist Republic was the official name of Czechoslovakia from 1960 until end of 1989 , a Soviet satellite state of the Eastern Bloc....
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Adopted in Markevich honour
About large authority, which was used by A. P. Markevich among the colleagues, students and followers, testifies circumstance that and lot of kinds of animals is adopted in his honour. It - Ancyrocephalus bychowskii Markevich, 1934; Preudorhadinorhynchus markewitschi Achmerov et Dombrovskaja-Achmerova, 1941; Asymphylodora markewitschi Kulakowskaja, 1947; Allocreadium markewitschi Kowal, 1949; Trypanosoma markewitschi Lubinsky et Salewskaja, 1950; Gyrodactylus markewitschi Kulakowskaja, 1952; Diorchis markewitschi Patschenko, 1952; Cryptobia Markewitschi Schapoval, 1953; Myxobolus markewitschi Palij, 1953; Phyllodistomum markewitschi Pigulevsky, 1953; Helicometra markewitschi Pogorelzeva, 1954; Dactylogyrus markewitschi Gussev, 1955; Entamoeba markewitschi Chebotarev, 1956; Markewitschiellinae Skrjabin et Koval, 1957; Markevitschiella Skrjabin et Koval, 1957; Laelaspis markewitschi Pirianyk, 1958; Stephanoproraoides markewitschi Sharpilo L. et V., 1959; Pseudoxiphydria markewitschi Jermolenko, 1960; Charopinus markewitschi Gussev, 1961; Sphaerospora markewitschi Donec, 1962; Markewitschia Yamaguti, 1963; Diplozoon markewitschi Bychowsky, Gintovt et Koval, 1964; Pseudoanthocotyle markewitschi Nikolaeva et Pogorelzeva, 1965; Markewitschia Kulakowskaja et Achmerov, 1965; Chloromyxum markewitschi Butabayeva et Allamuratov, 1965; Henneguya markewitschi Allamuratov, 1965; Lepronyssoides markewitschi Vshivkov, 1965; Vitta alexandri Kornyushin, 1966; Lamproglena markewitschi Sukhenko et Allamuratov, 1966; Markewitschiana Allamuratov et Koval, 1967; Markewitschella Spassky et Spasskaja, 1972; Markewitschitaenia Sharpilo et Kornjuschin, 1975; Aeolosoma markewitschi Boshko et Pashkevichute, 1975; Heteronychia markewitschi Verves, 1975; Markevitschielinus Tytar, 1975; Paraergasilus markevichi Titar et Chernogorenko, 1982.For helminths, he is honored by Lopastoma markevichi Kurochkin et Korotaeva, in Polyanskij, 1982;
And also in the myxozoan name Ceratomyxa markewitchi Iskov et Karataev, 1984; Clariidae Kutikova, Markevich et Spiridonov, 1990 (Rotifera)
Resources of the Internet
- Александр Прокофьевич Маркевич 1905—1999 Українське наукове товариство паразитологів.
- Маркевич, Александр Прокофьевич Большая биографическая энциклопедия.
- Маркевич Александр Прокофьевич БСЭ
- НАН України Інститут зоології ім. Шмальгаузена
- Глоба Ольга Федорівна - УЧЕНІ-ПРИРОДОЗНАВЦІ КИЇВЩИНИ
- Ольга Кратко - Становлення наукового світогляду професора МАРКЕВИЧА О. П.
- Ольга Кратко - Маркевич Олександр Прокопович (1905-1999 рр.) – організатор українського республіканського товариства паразитологів
- Науково-практична конференція укр. наукового товариства паразитологів, присвячена 100-річчю з дня народження акад. НАН УКРАЇНИ О. П. МАРКЕВИЧА
- George Hanek and William Threlfall, "Ergasilus auritus Markewitsch, 1940 (Copepoda: Ergasilidae) from Gasterosteus aculeatus Linnaeus, 1758 in Newfoundland" // Canadian Journal of Zoology, Volume 48, Number 1, January 1970, Pages 185-187
- Hoda El-Rashidy; Geoffrey A. Boxshall Biogeography and phylogeny of Paraergasilus Markevich, 1937
- Stephen Alston, Geoffrey A. Boxshall and John W. Lewis, "A redescription of adult females of Ergasilus briani Markewitsch, 1933 (Copepoda: Poecilostomatoida)" // Systematic Parasitology, 1993, Volume 24, Number 3, pp. 217-227
- Alston S, Boxshall GA & Lewis JW (1996) " The life cycle of Ergasilus briani Markewitsch, 1933 (Copepoda: Poecilostomatoida)" // Systematic Parasitology 35: 79-110
- Turkiye Parazitoloji Dergisi 2007, Cilt 31, Sayı 2, Sayfa(lar) 158-161
- The World of Copepods - Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History