Aleksandr Lyubishchev

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Alexandrovich and the family name is Lyubishchev.

Aleksandr Lyubishchev
Born	April 5, 1890  Saint Petersburg
Died	August 31, 1972  (aged 82) Tolyatti
Education	Doktor Nauk in Agriculture
Alma mater	Saint Petersburg State University
Occupation	Entomologist, philosopher
Employer	All-Russian Institute of Plant Protection (1930–1937) Bestuzhev Courses Tavrida National V.I. Vernadsky University

Aleksandr Lyubishchev (Russian: Александр Александрович Любищев; 1890, in Saint Petersburg – 1972) was a Soviet entomologist and philosopher, Doctor of Sciences (1936), and professor. He retired in 1955.

Career

He graduated from the Saint Petersburg State University in 1911. He was a student of Alexander Gurwitsch. Then he taught on the Bestuzhev Courses, at the Tavrida National V.I. Vernadsky University, the Perm State University.

In 1921 he left Simferopol for Perm. In 1930, he moved to Leningrad. In 1938 he moved to Kyiv. Then he headed the laboratory in Bishkek for the Kyrgyz Academy of Sciences.

Daniil Granin wrote the book about him called «Эта странная жизнь» (1974).

In 1912, he published his first scientific article. Since the 1920s he worked in the field of agricultural entomology.