Mykhailo Maksymovych

Mykhailo Oleksandrovych Maksymovych (Ukrainian: Михайло Олександрович Максимович; 3 September 1804 – 10 November 1873) was a professor in plant biology, Ukrainian historian and writer in the Russian Empire of a Cossack background.

He contributed to the life sciences, especially botany and zoology, and to linguistics, folklore, ethnography, history, literary studies, and archaeology. In 1845, the Kyiv Archeographic Commission was founded at his initiative.

In 1871, he was elected as a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian language and literature department. Maksymovych also was a member of the Nestor the Chronicler Historical Association that existed in Kyiv in 1872-1931.

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