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theory for inanimate objects was comparably just as diffi cult as Darwin's evolutionary
theory for living organisms.
Dokuchaev's ideas reached world soil scientists mainly through translations. The
fi rst time that his ideas began to penetrate into the world was when they were
meritoriously described in the topic
die Typen der Bodenbildung
(The Types of Soil
Formation), written in German by his student, K. D. Glinka, and published in Berlin,
1914. The topic, translated into English by C. F. Marbut in 1927, provided another
path for Dokuchaev ideas to become known outside of Russia. They are alive up to
now in recent soil classifi cation systems. But Glinka, another great scientist, ended
even worse than Dokuchaev.
