Melnyk, Mykola

Melnyk, Mykola [Мельник, Микола; Mel'nyk], b 20 November 1875 in Dovzhanka, Ternopil county, Galicia, d 1 September 1954 in Lviv. Botanist and teacher; member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society (NTSh) from 1920. He graduated from Vienna University and then taught in Ternopil and at the Academic Gymnasium of Lviv (from 1907) and the Lviv (Underground) Ukrainian University. He headed the physiography section of the NTSh and edited its Fiziografichnyi zbirnyk (Physiographic Collection, 7 vols, 1925–39) in which he established much of Ukrainian botanical terminology. Following the Soviet occupation of Galicia he taught botany and zoology at Lviv University and prepared textbooks for secondart schools on mineralogy, geology, and botany.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 3 (1993).]