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Professor Boris Pavlov Kitanov (1912–1996) — a Versatile Botanist and Naturalist PHYTOLOGIA BALCANICA 19 (3): 401 – 403, Sofia, 2013 401 IN MEMORIAM Professor BORIS PAVLOV KITANOV (1912–1996) — a versatile botanist and naturalist Dimitar S. Dimitrov Section of Botany, National Natural History Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1 Tsar Osvoboditel Blvd., 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria, e-mail: [email protected] a centenary of some of the most emblematic buildings in the birth of the centre of Sofia. The Sofia Grand Ho- In 2012,Professor tel is now one of those buildings. The Boris Kitanov (1912–1996) was cele- Professor’s interest in plants dates back brated. He was one of the founders of to his early student years and subse- paleobotanical research in Bulgaria. quently he dedicated his entire life to His first article in this scientific field their researching and study. Boris Ki- dates back to 1938 and he reported tanov was a studious and hard-work- in it the Pliocene Juglans cinerea L. f. ing person, who had encountered fossilis Bronn in the area of Lom. In many hardships throughout his life. the same year he wrote also an article The Professor had repeatedly re- on the age of Pernik and Bobov Dol’s lated to me how he had become a bota- Coal Basin, which aroused great interest nist, inspired by the botanist Ivan Urumov, both of botanists and geologists in Bulgar- who used to send young student Boris to the ia and abroad. Chronologically, then followed mountains in Southwest Bulgaria to collect plants. a research of the fossil flora of Lozenets in Sofia and On many occasions Urumov gave Boris Kitanov money description of a new species Alnus dimitrovii D. Jord. and equipment, so that the young student could go alone et Kitan. sp. nov. in the Nevrokop area, dated back to or with another fellow-student to the Rila, Pirin or Vla- the Tertiary. By 1984, the Professor came up with nine hina mountains. During one of those trips to the Pirin more paleobotanical publications. Mountains in 1927, the future Professor met some of the Boris Pavlov Kitanov was born into a family of Bul- most renowned botanists of that time: Nikolay Stoyanov, garian parents from Macedonia. His father, Pavel Ki- Boris Stefanov, Toma Georgiev and the German F. Her- tanov, descended from the rebellious village of Kru- mann. Of all these people, it was Nikolay Stoyanov that shevo in the central neighborhood of Miatsite, and helped Boris Kitanov in growing into a scientist. Prof. participated actively in the Ilinden Uprising of 1903. Kitanov told me a lot about their friendship and mutu- His mother, Vangelia Kitanova, was born in the vil- al work with the flora of the islands of Thasos and Samo- lage of Prosochen (nowadays Prosotsani, near the thrace, in the Eastern Rhodopes and South Dobrudzha. town of Drama, Greece). After the suppression of the Their mutual work lasted a lifetime. Uprising, the family had to flee to Bulgaria. Little Bo- In 1931, Boris Kitanov graduated from the Tech- ris grew up in a large family of six kids. His father was nical High School in Sofia, majoring in Forestry. In a master builder and took part in the construction of 1933, he enrolled as a student in Natural History at the 402 Dimitrov, D. • In memoriam Professor Boris Kitanov University of Belgrade. A year later he transferred to Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. He worked there until the University of Sofia and graduated there in 1937 as 1951 and subsequently moved to the Biological Fac- a top student in his class. ulty of the University of Sofia, where in 1952 he ob- Still as a university student, the Professor was ac- tained the scientific title of Professor. cepted and later on took an active part in the activi- In the period of 1957–1962, Prof. Kitanov worked ties of the Botanical, Entomological, Geological and as Director of the Botanical Garden of the Bulgari- Cave Societies. In 1937, after winning a Polish gov- an Academy of Sciences. During that period he had ernment competition, Kitanov went to specialize in the opportunity of traveling around the Soviet Union, Paleobotany and Phytogeography at the University of North Korea, China, and Albania, where he acquaint- Krakow, in the department of the renowned botanist ed himself with the local flora. Wladyslaw Szafer. In 1962, he returned again to the University of So- In the period of 1939–1940, he did his military ser- fia as Head of the Department of Plant Systematics vice in the Eastern Rhodopes. Subsequently, he taught and Phytogeography and worked there for the next 16 at the High School of Nevrokop (now the town of Got- years, until his retirement in 1977. During those years se Delchev) until 1942. During that period he studied Kitanov was also elected Dean of the Biological Facul- the flora of the Eastern Rhodopes and Bozdag (now ty for the period 1964–1967. Falakron Mountain, Greece). In 1967, he went to Cuba as a Professor of Botany In 1942, Boris Kitanov began work as an Assistant at the Agricultural Faculty of the University of Habana. at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Uni- Once again, owing to his devotion, skills and knowledge, versity of Sofia, in the Department of Plant System- Prof. Kitanov organized and structured the entire aca- atics and Phytogeography headed by Prof. Nikolay demic process of lectures in Plant Anatomy, Plant Mor- Stoyanov. By that time, Kitanov and Prof. Stoyanov phology and Plant Systematics. Despite the harsh and were researching the flora of the islands of Thasos and moist local tropical weather conditions, Boris Kitanov Samothrace in the Aegean. headed scientific expeditions across the whole island of Boris Kitanov also happened to be one of the found- Cuba and studied thoroughly the local flora. He man- ers of the University of Skopje. In 1946, he went to the aged to collect an enormous amount of herbarium mate- city of Skopje on invitation of the Government of Mac- rials (20 000 exsiccates belonging to 2400 species) which edonia. There he engaged officially in professorial work he later donated to the Thirteen Centuries of Bulgaria and headed the Department of Special Botany. At the Fund. That Fund could be found today in the Herbarium University of Skopje, with a lot of effort, hard work and of the Biological Faculty of the University of Sofia. determination, Boris Kitanov managed in a very short After his retirement, Boris Kitanov did not stop his time to create a department and a laboratory where he scientific research activities. He participated actively read lectures to the university students. Some of his stu- in many projects as an Adviser with the Scientific Re- dents became the future Academicians Kiril Mitsevski search Sector for Biological Resources (for the peri- and Liupcho Grupche. During the three years of his stay od of 1977–1983). Meanwhile, he continued reading there Kitanov toured all mountains of Macedonia. He lectures at the Biogeography in the Geological Geog- managed to collect a vast amount of herbarium materi- raphy Faculty of the University of Sofia. His scientific als that later on laid the foundations of the Herbarium research is very original, many-sided and fascinating. at the Department headed by him. Many of the collect- He worked in every aspect of botanical science: Flo- ed plants were brought to Bulgaria. Prof. Kitanov per- ristic, Taxonomy, Phenomenology, Phytogeography, sonally handed to me many of those plants to register Paleobotany, and Plant Resources. Boris Kitanov’s and describe in the Herbarium of the Biological Faculty publications (more than 120) stand out with their ac- of the University of Sofia (over 4000 plant specimens). curate, concise and analytical style and are cited still In 2011, we succeeded in saving the entire collection of by many Bulgarian and foreign authors. those specimens from discarding and transferred them Prof. Kitanov had found about 100 new plant spe- to the National Museum of Natural Sciences of the Bul- cies for different countries: of these, 17 were new spe- garian Academy of Sciences. cies for the Bulgarian flora, 42 for the flora of Greece, In 1948, Boris Kitanov worked as an Associate Pro- eight for the Albanian flora, four for the Yugoslavian, fessor at the newly founded Botanical Institute of the and 29 new species for the Cuban flora. Phytol. Balcan. 19(3) • Sofia • 2013 403 He penned nine textbooks in Botany, a Manual of Antonova, S. 1987. Such a vitality [Такая жизненость]. – Sofiiskie Botany and a Botanical Dictionary (Bulgarian–Latin– Novosti, no 10 (in Russian). Russian–English–French–German). Editor’s article. 1982. Congratulation on jubilee! Prof. Boris Boris Kitanov wrote more than 200 popular sci- Pavlov Kitanov [На юбиляра честито! Проф. Борис Павлов Китанов]. – Priroda i Znanie, 10: 38 (in Bulgarian). ence articles, published in many journals, including Editor’s article. 1987. Prof. Boris Pavlov Kitanov. An example Prirodoznanie, Geografia, Priroda i Znanie, Biologia i of diligence [Проф. Борис Павлов Китанов. Пример за Himiya, Turist. He also contributed to the newspapers трудолюбие]. – Priroda i Znanie, 7: 43-44 (in Bulgarian). Novini, Rabotnichesko Delo, Anteni, and Echo. Georgiev, M. 1989. A 75-year anniversary of Prof. Boris Kitanov Out of respect for Boris Kitanov and his scientific [75-годишен юбилей на . Geography, 1: 22-23. (in Bulgarian) contribution, fellow botanists have named a few vas- Gyoshev, S. 1986. Following the dream [След мечтата]. – Puls, cular plants in his honour: Jurinea kitanovii Jljin, An- no 33 (in Bulgarian). themis kitanovii Thin, and Minuartia kitanovii Panov. Gyoshev, S. 1987. The prominent botanist Prof. Boris Kitanov at Personally, I am truly grateful for the opportuni- the age of 75 [Изтъкнатият ботаник проф.
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