Alexander Antonowitsch Stuckenberg

Alexander Antonovich Stuckenberg ( Russian Александр Антонович Штукенберг ; born September 7, ^jul. / 19th September  1844 ^greg. In vyshny volochyok , Tver province , † March 13 ^jul. / 26. March  1905 ^greg. In Kazan ) was a Russian geologist , Paleontologist and university professor .

Life

Stuckenberg's father Anton Iwanowitsch Stuckenberg was an engineer and site manager for the Nikolaibahn . The grandfather Johann Christian Stuckenberg from Blankenburg in the Duchy of Oldenburg entered the Russian military service in 1807 and became known as a geographer .

The young Stuckenberg received his education first at home and then in the St. Petersburg boarding school Keller . In 1856 he began studying at the St. Petersburg Institute for Transport Engineering . Since the technical sciences did not satisfy him, he left the institute in 1861 to devote himself to the natural sciences . He was only able to attend lectures as a guest auditor at the University of St. Petersburg for a short time as the university was then temporarily closed. In September 1862 he passed the final examination at the 2nd Kharkov High School, so that he could now become a student at the University of Kharkov in the physical - mathematical faculty . After a year he returned to the University of St. Petersburg and studied mineralogy in particular with Platon Alexandrowitsch Pusyrewski and geology with Eduard Ivanovich Hofman . During his first geological excursion under Pusyrewski's direction to Finland and the Olonez Governorate with investigations on the north bank of Lake Ladoga , he collected material for his candidate dissertation , with which he graduated as a candidate in 1867 .

Stuckenberg was now preparing for a professorship. From 1870 he traveled to the Crimea and made excursions to the governorates of St, Petersburg, Novgorod , Pskow and Vitebsk . In 1873 he received his doctorate with his dissertation on the geology of the Crimea for a master's degree in mineralogy and geognosy .

Then Stuckenberg was on the advice of the Kazan University in 1873 as a lecturer in the Department of Geology and Paleontology called Kazan University. As a result, he was now compelled to give up the intended investigations of the Devonian and concentrate on the geology of the east of European Russia . He toured the governorates of Kazan , Perm , Vyatka , Simbirsk , Samara , Saratov , Orenburg and Astrakhan . He visited Baku , Krasnovodsk and the island of Cheleken on the east coast of the Caspian Sea . In 1874 he became vice-president of the Society of Naturalists at the University of Kazan (1880 president). In 1875 he defended his doctoral dissertation on his travels to the Pechora area and the Timan Tundra , whereupon he became associate professor at the chair of geology and paleontology at the University of Kazan (1876 full professor). In 1878 he became a member of the Kazan Society for History , Archeology and Ethnography , which published its own magazine. In 1882 he took part in the work in the Urals region and in the Governorates of Perm and Orenburg to create a geological map of European Russia. In 1898 he was honored as an Honored Professor. After his death, his chair was taken over by Pyotr Ivanovich Krotov .

Honors

• Russian Order of Saint Anne II Class (1887)
• Order of St. Stanislaus 1st class (1890) together with the gold medal of the Committee of the Kazan Science and Industry Exhibition

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Штукенберг (Александр Антонович) . In: Brockhaus-Efron . XXXIXa, 1903, p. 892 ( wikisource.org [accessed February 20, 2018]).
2. ↑ Палеонтолого-стратиграфический музей кафедры динамической и исторической геологии Санкт-Петербургского государственного университета: Штукенберг Александр Антонович (accessed on 20 February 2018).
3. ↑ Чувашская энциклопедия: ШТУКЕНБЕРГ Александр Антонович (accessed February 20, 2018).
4. ↑ Materials for the knowledge of the fauna of the Devonian deposits of Siberia . 1886.
5. ↑ Александр Штукенберг: Отчет геологического путешествия в Печорский край и Тиманскую тундру : (Исследования 1874 г.): С геол. карт. и 5 табл. окаменелостей . тип. Имп. Акад. наук, St. Petersburg 1875.