Ivan Alekseevich Dwigubski


Ivan Alekseevich Dwigubski was a Russian naturalist, professor end rector of the Imperial University of Moscow.

Biography

Student of the medical faculty of the Imperial Moscow University.
Elected professor of the Imperial University of Moscow.
Dvigubsky lectured in Russian and called on Russian scientists to write scientific works in Russian:
«Until the Russian language is respected by the Russians themselves, it is difficult to produce anything good until then. When they write for Russians, they teach their sciences not in Russian, where can one get a knowledge of the native language and attachment to it? In a whole Europe, maybe one Russia is not proud of its language...»