Background
Son of a military engineer, Edmund Russow studied at the Universities of Tartu (German: Dorpat) and Berlin.
Son of a military engineer, Edmund Russow studied at the Universities of Tartu (German: Dorpat) and Berlin.
In 1867 he became an associate professor at Dorpat, where from 1874 to 1897, he served as a full professor In 1895-1897 he was president of the Estonian Naturalists" Society. Russow was an authority on Sphagnaceae (sphagnum mosses) and remembered for his research in plant anatomy and histology, in particular studies of the plant family Marsileaceae (aquatic and semi-aquatic ferns).
The plant genus Russowia is named in his honor, as is Sphagnum russowii (Russow"s sphagnum).
Russian Academy of Sciences.