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Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier and Claude Louis Berthollet or
in botany and zoology by Carl Linnaeus exemplify the interest
that the naming of scientific concepts has always been rather
important for the specialists. Due to the growing
internationalization of science in the 19th century the need for
scientists to have at their disposal a set of rules for formulating
terms for their respective disciplines became apparent. Botanists
(in 1867), zoologists (in 1889) and chemists (in 1892) expressed
this need at their respective international meetings.
In the 18th and 19th centuries scientists were the leaders in
terminology; in the 20th century engineers and technicians have
become involved. The rapid progress and development of
technology required not only the naming of new concepts, but also
agreement on the terms used. The Austrian E. Wüster
(1898±1977), being considered the founder of modern terminology
and the main representative of what is known as the Vienna
School, came from the field of engineering, as did the Russian
D. S. Lotte (1889±1950), founder of the Soviet School of
Terminology.
Dmytro Semenovych Lotte (Дмитро Семенович Лотте)
(1898-1950) was an engineer. Only in 1928 he became interested
in terminology. In 1931 he published his first scientific article
devoted to the terminology. In 1933 he initiated the work of the
Committee of Technical Terminology at the Scientific Academy of
the USSR. The main problem that lied within Lotte’s interest was
what the translator should do when there was no equivalent in the
target language; describing a term was not appropriate because the
article didn’t always contain drawings; to create its own term
would lead to misunderstanding. That’s why he was mainly
interested in the standartisation of terminology and the ways of
creating terms. His main works are “Основы построения научно-
технической терминологии” (Fundamentals of Creating
Scientific and Technical Terminology), “Вопросы
заимствования и упорядочения иноязычных терминов и

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