Mykhaylo Maksymovych

Mykhaylo Oleksandrovych Maksymovych (Ukrainian: Михайло Олександрович Максимович; Russian: Михаил Александрович Максимович; 3 September 1804 – 10 November 1873) was a famous professor in plant biology, historian and writer in the Russian Empire of a Ukrainian Cossack background.

He contributed to the life sciences, especially botany and zoology, and to linguistics, folklore, ethnography, history, literary studies, and archaeology.

In 1871 he was elected as a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian language and literature department. Maksymovych also was a member of the Nestor the Chronicler Historical Association that existed in Kiev in 1872-1931.

Maksymovych was born into an old Ukrainian Cossack family which owned a small estate on Mykhailova Hora near Prokhorivka, Zolotonosha county in Poltava Governorate (now in Cherkasy Oblast) in Left-bank Ukraine. After receiving his high school education at Novgorod-Severskiy Gymnasium, he studied natural science and philology at philosophy faculty of Moscow University and later the medical faculty, graduating with his first degree in 1823, his second in 1827; thereafter, he remained at the university in Moscow for further academic work in botany. In 1833 he received his doctorate and was appointed as a professor for the chair of botany in the Moscow University.

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