Alexander Theodorowicz Batalin
1847–1896 (age 49)
botanist
Biography
Alexander Fyodorovich Batalin (Russian: Алекса́ндр Фёдорович Бата́лин; 13 August 1847 – 13 October 1896) was a Russian botanist. He was the Chief Botanist and Director of the Imperial Botanical Garden in St. Petersburg. His patronimic has also been transliterated as Fedorovich and Theodorowicz.
His father, Fyodor Batalin, gained renown for his two-volume work on the Caucasian Mineral Waters. After his father's death in 1895, Alexander briefly took over as editor of the Agricultural Gazette.