Open AccessGraduate of Riga Polytechnic Institute, agronomist Boris Jenken (1873–1943)
Author(s) -
В. Вергунов
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
history of engineering sciences and of institutions of higher education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2592-8651
pISSN - 2592-8643
DOI - 10.7250/hesihe.2018.011
Subject(s) - ukrainian , political science , agrarian society , russian federation , library science , agriculture , sociology , history , regional science , computer science , philosophy , linguistics , archaeology
The article is dedicated to the life and creative heritage of the graduate of the Riga Polytechnic Institute (RPI; 1900) agronomist Boris Jenken (Борис Карлович Єнкен; 1873–1943). B. Jenken was an organizer, scientist, breeder, educator, historian and bibliographer of agrarian science of the Ukrainian national agriculture. The study was carried out using not well-known and recently distributed documents for use in the archives of the Russian Federation and the Ukraine, as well as monographs and publications in periodicals. The article analyses the life and activity periods of the researcher related to the organization and implementation of national agricultural trials, mainly in the field of breeding and seed growing. The emphasis was placed on B. Jenkens’ scientific and pedagogical work in Ukraine: in Kharkiv (1908–1919; 1925–1926; 1930), Odessa (1924), Maslovka (1927–1929), and Kyiv (1928–1929).