Alexey Severtsov was a zoologist, teacher and professor. Research interests: evolutionary morphology, patterns of evolutionary process, issues of phylogenesis. Founder of domestic schools of morphologists.
Background
Alexey Severtsov was born on September 11, 1866 in Moscow City, Russian Federation. Alexei was not even one year old when the whole family moved to the village of Petrovskoye (Bobrovsky district of the Voronezh province; now Yasenki, Bobrovsky district), to the estate of his grandfather - Alexei Petrovich Severtsov.
Education
Alexey Severtsov learned to read not only in Russian, but also in German and French; By the age of 8-10, he was already fluent in all three languages. The father paid a lot of attention to his son. Early taught the boy to hunt, became his first teacher of drawing. At the insistence of his father, he was early taught swimming and horseback riding. In 1876, Alexei was brought to Moscow and sent to the 1st grade of a private gymnasium of L.I. Polivanov. He graduated from the Natural Department of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Moscow University (1889).
Career
Since 1890, in Moscow University was an assistant, private assistant of professor of the Department of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy. Since 1898 was a private assistant of professor at the Department of Zoology at Yuriev University (now University of Tartu), since 1902 - extraordinary professor of the Department of Zoology of the University of Kiev. Since 1911- professor, head of the department of zoology of the comparative anatomy and physiology, at the same time director of the Institute of Comparative Anatomy of Moscow University. Since 1930, head of the laboratory evolutionary morphology and animal ecology, since 1934 - Institute of evolutionary morphology and paleozoology (since 1994 - Institute of Problems of ecology and evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences named after Severtsov). Works: "Collected Works" in 5 volumes (Moscow-Saint Petersburg, 1945-1950).