Background
Konstantin Karlovich Sent-Iler was born on September 19, 1866, in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation.
Konstantin Karlovich Sent-Iler was born on September 19, 1866, in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation.
Konstantin Karlovich graduated from the Department of Biology of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics at the University of Saint Petersburg in 1890. He continued his studies at Neapolitan Zoological Station in Trieste, the Laboratory of Walter Fleming in Kiel, the Laboratory of I.I. Mechnikov in Paris.
From 1903 Konstantin Karlovich worked as a professor at the University of Tartu. He was the chairman of the Evacuation Committee of the University of Tartu. That facilitated his move to Voronezh. He worked as a professor, head of the Department of Zoology of Faculty of Biology at Voronezh State University.
Konstantin Karlovich was the organizer of expeditions on such rivers as the Voronezh, the Usman, the Don, the Tikhaya Sosna, the Potudan and others. He founded the school of zoologists (zoology of invertebrata). He was the organizer of the biological station on the White Sea. From 1918 to 1941, he was the head of Kovd Biological Station of Voronezh State University and at the estuary of Voronezh River in Zhirovsky Forest. Konstantin Karlovich was one of the organizers of the Research Institute to Voronezh State University in 1925.
He wrote over 100 works on comparative histology, hydrobiology, fauna and ecology of invertebrata. His works include "Zoological Excursions in the Area of Voronezh" (published in Voronezh in 1926) and "In Our reservoirs" (published in Voronezh in 1937).