Alfred von Struve

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Alfred von Struve (born October 5, 1845 in Pulkowo , † December 4, 1916 in Petrograd ) was a Russian chemist , mining engineer and geologist of German-Baltic descent.

Life

Alfred von Struve was born as the son of the German-Baltic astronomer Otto Wilhelm von Struve . His grandfather was the German astronomer Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve . He grew up in Russia and studied chemistry at the Karlsruhe Polytechnic from the 1863 summer semester to the 1865 summer semester . Here he became a member of Livonia Karlsruhe in 1863 and was one of the founders of Baltica Karlsruhe in 1864 . In the winter semester of 1865 he went to the University of Dorpat . In the winter semester of 1866 he moved to the Mining Institute in Petersburg, which he left in May 1869 as a mining engineer .

After completing his studies, von Struve was a senior mining engineer at the Chulkow coal company in the Ryazan Governorate in Russia until 1875 , interrupted by private work between 1871 and 1873 in Saint Petersburg. From 1876 to 1883 he was chief geologist for the preparation of the geological map of the Moscow coal basin. He then worked for various coal mines in Russia until 1885, before returning to private work in Saint Petersburg until 1887. From 1887 to 1896 he was the government's chief controller for the construction of a tunnel in the Caucasus and a railroad in Russia. From 1896 to 1898 he again carried out various private geological work in Saint Petersburg, including the discovery and description of the prehistoric genus Chaetetipora Struve . From 1890 to 1906 he was a consulting mining engineer at the Kedabeck copper works of Siemens in Kausasus. In 1906 he retired.

Alfred von Struve was married to Auguste Bergsträsser since 1873. The marriage resulted in three daughters and one son.

Awards

  • Alfred von Struve was appointed to the Russian State Council.
  • The prehistoric genus Chaetetipora Struve , which he discovered in 1897 and described in 1898, was named after him.

Fonts

  • About the sequence of layers in the carbon deposits in the southern part of the Moscow coal basin, 1886
  • Geological map of the Moscow coal basin, 1893
  • Contribution to the knowledge of the solid structure of hard corals, 1898

literature

  • Hans Nehlep (Ed.): Album Academicum des Corps Baltica-Borussia Danzig 1860-1970. Berlin 1973.
  • Palaeontologia Polonica, No. 35, 1976, p. 107 f. Digitized version (PDF; 11.3 MB)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Global Names Index, Chaetetipora Struve 1897
personal data
SURNAME Struve, Alfred von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian chemist, mining engineer and geologist of German-Baltic descent
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Pulkovo
DATE OF DEATH 4th December 1916
Place of death Petrograd