Viktor Pisarzhevsky

Viktor Dmitrievich Pisarzhevsky
Виктор Дмитриевич Писаржевский
Born20 [O.S. 1876] 11
Died1903 (aged 26–27)
Alma materImperial Moscow University
Known forFirst published list of lichens recorded from Russia (compiled from literature up to 1897)
Scientific career
FieldsLichenology

Viktor Dmitrievich Pisarzhevsky (20 November [O.S. 8 November ] 1876 – 1903) was a Russian lichenologist who also served as a notary in Bessarabia. As a student at Imperial Moscow University, he compiled and published an early literature-based checklist of lichens reported from parts of the Russian Empire, issued as "the first published list of lichens of Russia" in the late 1890s. After graduating, he returned to Kishinev and worked as a notary; his career and life ended with suicide in 1903.