Alexander Andreevich Iossa

Alexander Andreevich Iossa

Alexander Andreyevich Iossa ( Russian Александр Андреевич Иосса ., Scientific transliteration Aleksandr Andreevič Iossa * December 19 ^jul. / 31 December  1810 ^greg. In Bogoslowsk , † January 2 ^jul. / 14. January  1894 ^greg. In St. Petersburg ) was a Russian mining engineer and metallurgist .

Life

Iossa, son of the immigrant German mountain tester and Thuringian shift supervisor Andrei Grigorjewitsch Iossa (* 1777 in Hessen-Darmstadt ), grew up in the Bogoslowsk copper works . He studied at the Mining Cadet Corps Institute ( St. Petersburg State Mining University ) with a degree in 1829.

From 1829-1870 Iossa worked in the Urals in the metallurgy plants in Kuschwa , Satka , Arti , Votkinsk and Slatoust . In 1849 he became head of the metallurgy plant in Votkinsk. There he gained experience with the Bessemer pear , analyzed the puddling process and contributed to the opening of the Votkinsk Mining College . 1851–1855 he was the head of the Slatouster mining district (after PP Anosow ). In 1855 he became the head of the mining department at the Kamsko-Votinsk works. 1863-1870 he was general director of all Ural plants, including armor and cannon factories.

Iossa introduced technical improvements and fulfilled special orders. He was able to deliver the highest quality thanks to its improved process iron than 1857-1858 by DI Schurawski , PP Melnikov and KA Thon redesigning the spire of the Peter and Paul Cathedral of the Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg conducted and whose wooden structure was replaced by a metal structure. For this Iossa received a diamond ring with a monogram from the tsar .

From 1870 he worked for the mining office as a member of the Mining Council and the scientific mining committee , whose chairman he became the 1,883th In 1874 he received honorary membership of the Russian Mineralogical Society . He published essays on the metallurgy of iron in the mining magazine . He was an honorary member of the Russian Technical Society and a member of the Ural Society of Friends of Natural Sciences . In 1889 he became a real privy councilor

Iossa was buried in the Smolensk Orthodox Cemetery in St. Petersburg . He was the younger brother of Grigory Andreevich Iossa and father of Nikolai Alexandrowitsch Iossa .

Honors

• Order of St. Vladimir 2nd and 3rd class
• Imperial-Royal Order of the White Eagle
• Russian Order of Saint Anne 2nd and 3rd class
• (Russian) Order of Saint Stanislaus 3rd class

literature

• AW Dobronisski, SN Kulibin: Alexander Andrejewitsch Iossa (Nekrolog) . Gorny Journal 1 No. 3 (1894) (Russian).
• Biographical lexicon of natural scientists and technicians . Publishing house of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia , Moscow 1958, 1959 (Russian).
• AI Melua : Geologists and Mining Engineers of Russia: An Encyclopedia . Gumanistika, Moscow, St. Petersburg 2000 (Russian).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Great Soviet Encyclopedia : Iossa Alexander Andrejewitsch . Moscow 1969–1978 (Russian).
2. ↑ EM Sablozki: people in the Ural mining operations (Russian retrieved on April 7, 2016).
3. ↑ Honorary Members of the RMO (Russian, accessed April 7, 2016).