Nicolaĭ Adolfowitsch Busch

Nicolaĭ Adolfowitsch Busch was a Russian botanist that lived during the reign of the Soviet Union. He studied ferns and seed plants.

Biography
In 1891, Busch graduated from Kazan State University.

From 1888 to 1890, along with Aleksandr Vasiljevich Fomin and Nikolai Ivanovich Kuznetsov, under the Russian Geographical Society, took several botanical and geographical expeditions to the Caucasus. Many of the plants Busch collected in the Caucasus and 400 pages of text written by Busch are currently located in the herbarium of St. Petersburg State Forestry Engineering Academy, which he studied at from 1893 to 1895.

In 1900, he was accepted to the University of Tartu at the position of privatdozent. Since 1902, he worked at the Saint Petersberg Botanical Garden. From 1908 to 1911, Busch taught botany to women at St. Petersberg University.

When citing a botanical name, he is abbreviated as N.Busch.