Background
Petrunkevitch, Alexander was born on December 22, 1875 in Pliski, Russia. Son of Ivan Ilitch and Anna Petrovna (Kandiba) Petrunkevitch.
Petrunkevitch, Alexander was born on December 22, 1875 in Pliski, Russia. Son of Ivan Ilitch and Anna Petrovna (Kandiba) Petrunkevitch.
Educated gymnasiums, Kiev, Tuver and Moscow, Russia, and University Moscow. Doctor of Philosophy, University Freiburg, 1901. Doctor of Science, University Prize ring (The), 1926, U. Indiana, 1951.
. Privat-docent, Freiburg, 1902-1904. Lecturer Harvard, 1904-1905. Acting professor zoology Indiana University, 1906.
Assistant professor zoology, 1910-1917, professor, 1917-1944, Yale emeritus, since 1944.
President Russian Collegiate Institute New York, 1919-1926. Associate editor Current History Magazine, 1923.
Honorary curator arachnida, American Museum Natural History, New York City, 1909-1912. Chairman section comparative physiology International Congress Zoology, Boston, 1907.
Translator: (in Russian) Byron’s Manfred, 1898. (in English) Lay of the Warride of Igor, Poet Lore, 1920. Selected Poems of Pushkin, 1938.
Author: Gedanken über Verebung, 1903. Free Will, 1905
Index Catalogue of Spiders of North Central and South America, 1911. Terrestrial Palaeozoic Arachnida of North America, 1913.
Morphology of Invertebrate Types, 1916. Systema Aranearum, 1928. The Spiders of Porto Rico, 1930.
An Inquiry into the Natural Classification of Spiders, 1933. A Study of Amber Spiders, 1942. Palaeozoic Arachnida of Illinois, 1945.
Choice and Responsibility, 1947. A Study of Palaeozoic Arachnida, 1949. Baltic Amber Spiders in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1950.
Principles of Classification, 1952. Macro-evolution and the Fossil Record of Arachnida, 1952. Paleozoic and Mesozoic Arachnida of Europe, 1953.
Archnida in Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, 1955. Amber Spiders in European Collections, 1958. Chiapas Amber Spiders, 1963, 2d study, 1964.
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Paleontological Society. Member American Society Zoologists, Entomological Society American, American Museum National History (correspondent), New York Entomol Society, National Academy Science, Sigma Xi.
Married Wanda Hartshorn, April. Married second, Myrtle Hallworth, 1927 (divorced 1930).