Історія створення гербарію Тернопільського національного педагогічного університету імені Володимира Гнатюка

Abstract

Herbarium work at Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University has its own history. Intensive botanical investigations in Volyn Gymnasium, and later at Kremenets Lyceum were organized by the teacher of natural sciences of the gymnasium, the director of the Botanical Garden Willibald Besser, who collected a large herbarium of flora from Austria, Galicia and other areas. In 1834 he became a director of the Botanical Garden and a professor of the Department of Botany at the newly established University of St. Volodymyr. So he moved to Kyiv his herbarium. Currently, the herbarium of Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University has more than 40,000 herbarium sheets and includes: scientific, educational herbarium and exchange fund. A computer database of the herbarium has been created, which contains complete information on all available herbarium specimens, which belong to 5 departments and 182 families. The herbarium of the Department of Botany is included in Index Herbariorum, which is maintained by M. G. Kholodny Institute of Botany, NAS of Ukraine. Since January 1, 2010, the herbarium of Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University has been given a new status - a training laboratory of plant morphology and taxonomy - a herbarium.