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Alexander Karlowitsch Meister ( Russian Александр Карлович Мейстер ; * 1865 in Moscow , † November 25, 1938 in Leningrad ) was a Russian geologist , petrograph and mineralogist .

Life

Meister studied at the Moscow University and at the St. Petersburg Mining Institute with a degree in 1893. In 1894 he became a regular geologist at the Geolkom ( Geological Committee of the All-Russian Geological Institute). He conducted research in the Turgai - steppes between the Urals and the Aral Sea , in the Yenisei region , in Rajon Bodaibo in which Ujesd Bargusin and Südtransbaikalien and explored there the tectonics . In the Yenisei Rajon he investigated the gold content and determined the most favorable places for gold mining. Under his direction the first geological map of Siberia was published. He became a doctor of geological and mineralogical sciences and a professor. In 1908 he received the Prschewalski Medal of the Russian Geographical Society .

After the October Revolution , Meister was director of Geolkom from 1918 to 1921 (after Valerian Nikolajewitsch Weber ). He was then head of the Department of Geology and Economics and assistant to the following Geolkom directors Anatoly Nikolajewitsch Ryabinin , Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Jakowlew (1923-1926) and Dmitri Ivanovich Muschketow (1926-1929). After that he was only active scientifically and literarily because of his decreasing visual acuity .

In 1938 Meister was a victim of the Great Terror with posthumous rehabilitation. His former boss Muschketov had already been arrested with other geologists in 1937 (for founding a counterrevolutionary terrorist group in 1930) and shot on February 18, 1938 in Leningrad. Master brother Georgi Karlovich champion was arrested on August 11 in 1937 and was the No. 92 on the. Saratov -Erschießungsliste with 170 persons from the NKVD - Major Vladimir Yefimovich Zessarski compiled and Stalin , Voroshilov , Molotov and Kaganovich on 21 January Was signed in 1938. The Military College of the Supreme Court of the USSR pronounced the death sentence, and the shooting took place on the same day.

Layers of the Upper Devonian in Kazakhstan , some taxa of ancient organisms and individual species of Ectoprocta , Trilobitomorpha , Brachiopoda and Archaeocyatha were named after Meister .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ТИХИЙ ГОЛОС ЧИСТЫХ ИСТИН: МЕЙСТЕР АЛЕКСАНДР КАРЛОВИЧ . In: Наука в Сибири . No. 5-6 , February 13, 1998, pp. 2141–2142 ( nsc.ru [accessed February 11, 2018]).
  2. ↑ a b Исследователи самоцветов Сибири (accessed February 11, 2018).
  3. ↑ Мейстер, Александр Карлович . In: Сибирская Советская Энциклопедия . tape 3 , 1929, pp. 378 .
  4. ↑ a b С.А.Топорец: Геолком ЦНИГРИ - ВСЕГЕИ (основные - этапные - моменты истории) (accessed February 12, 2018).
  5. ↑ А. К. Мейстер: Геологическая карта Енисейского золотоносного района: описание листа К-9 . Типография М. Стасюлевича, St. Petersburg 1905.
  6. ↑ Hinton, A. Meister (translator from English): Revelations from Mrs. North's Pension: A Strange Story . Kellerdr. "Despite bombs and grenades", London 1925.
  7. ↑ Репрессированные геологи . 3. Edition. Изд-во ВСЕГЕИ, Moscow, St. Petersburg 1999, p. 224 .
  8. ↑ УЧЕНЫЕ В СТАЛИНСКИХ СПИСКАХ (accessed February 11, 2018).
personal data
SURNAME Master, Alexander Karlowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Мейстер, Александр Карлович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian geologist, petrograph and mineralogist
DATE OF BIRTH 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1938
Place of death Leningrad