Valentin Bianchi

Valentin Bianchi
Valentin Bianchi
	Valentin Bianchi (1857-1920), Russian ornithologist
Born	18 February 1857; Moscow
Died	10 January 1920 (aged 62); Petrograd
Nationality	Russian
Known for	Birds of Middle Asia, Central Asia

Valentin Lvovich Bianchi (18 February 1857 – 10 January 1920) (Russian: Валентин Львович Бианки) was a Russian ornithologist.

Bianchi was the Head of the Department of Ornithology at the Imperial Academy of Sciences of Petrograd from 1896 to 1920. He worked mainly on birds from Middle and Central Asia. He is honoured in the common and scientific names of Bianchi's warbler (Seicercus valentini), described by Ernst Hartert.

Father of Russian naturalist Vitaly Bianki.

Works

1891 – The birds of Gansu expedition of G.N. Potanin 1884–1887 (with Mikhail Mikhailovich Berezovsky)
1905 – Scientific results of the N.M. Przewalski expeditions to Central Asia
1907 – Materials for an avifauna of Mongolia and East Tibet
1911–1913 – The fauna of Russia (first volume), (two semi-volumes)
1905 – Orthoptera and Pseudoneuroptera of the Russian Empire (with Georgij Georgiewitsch Jacobson)
1909 – Instructions for collecting birds, their eggs and nests

Ivanov A.I. 1952. In memoriam Valentin Lvovich Bianchi . Proc. Zool. Inst. USSR Acad. Sci. Vol. 9. N 3: 957–963 (in Russian).
Anon., 1922 Valentin Lvovich Bianchi. Obituary. 1922. Ibis. Ser. 11. Vol. 4. N 1: 188–189 Full text

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