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Kovalevskiĭ, A. O. (Aleksandr Onufrievich), 1840-1901

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Personal name headingKovalevskiĭ, A. O. (Aleksandr Onufrievich), 1840-1901
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Variant(s)Kovalevskiĭ, Aleksandr Onufrievich, 1840-1901
Ковалевский, А. О. (Александр Онуфриевич), 1840-1901
Kowalevsky, A., 1840-1901
Kowalevsky, Alexander, 1840-1901
Kovalevsky, Alexander, 1840-1901
Kowalewski, Aleksander, 1840-1901
Birth date1840-11-07
Death date1901-11-09
Place of birthVārkava (Latvia)
Place of deathSaint Petersburg (Russia)
Field of activityEmbryology Zoology
Profession or occupationEmbryologists Zoologists
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Found inA.O. i V.O. Kovalevskie--perepiska, 1867-1873 gg., 1988: p. 3 (Aleksandr Onufrievich Kovalevskiĭ, 1840-1901)
Kowalevsky, A. Entwickelungsgeschichte des Amphioxus lanceolatus, 1867: title page (A. Kowalevsky.)
Wikipedia, viewed 27 July 2017: Alexander Kovalevsky (Alexander Onufrievich Kovalevsky, Polish: Aleksander Kowalewski, 7 November 1840 in Vārkava, Vitebsk Governorate (present-day Vārkava Municipality, Latvia)-1901), also written Alexander Kowalevsky, was a Russian embryologist of Polish descent, who studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg and became professor at St. Petersburg.)
Evolution & Development. Volume 14, Issue 1, 2012. Viewed online via Wiley Online Library, July 27, 2017: Life of Alexander Onufrievich Kowalevsky (1840-1901) summary (A short description of the life of the famous Russian embryologist and zoologist Alexander O. Kowalevsky is presented ...) body of article (In 1890, Prof. Kowalevsky was elected a member of Imperial Academy of Sciences and in a year's time moved with his family to St. Petersburg ... Nothing seems to have foreshadowed the cerebral hemorrhage that occurred on November 6, 1901. Three days later, Kowalevsky died without regaining consciousness. Kowalevsky was buried at the Novo-Devichie Orthodox cemetery in St. Petersburg, where his tomb remains today.)