Charles Michel Potier

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Charles Michel Potier Ivanovich ( Russian (Шарль / Карл Мишель Иванович Потье) ; born September 16 . Jul / 27. September  1786 greg. In France ; † March 4 jul. / 16th March  1855 greg. In Klarowke, Dneprowski - Ujesd , Taurien Governorate ) was a French - Russian transportation engineer and university professor .

Life

Potier graduated from the Paris École polytechnique and the École nationale des ponts et chaussées and served in the French team of engineers . When Alexander I was planning to set up an institute for traffic engineering in St. Petersburg , Napoleon I recommended the engineers Pierre-Dominique Bazaine , Alexandre Fabre , Maurice Destrem and Potier to him at the meeting in Erfurt in 1809 . The four engineers were then invited to St. Petersburg by the general inspector of the newly established traffic engineering corps Agustín de Betancourt . In July 1810 Potier entered the Russian service and became a captain in the traffic engineer corps . He was immediately appointed professor of mathematics at the Institute of the Transport Engineering Corps, which had just been founded. In 1811 he was promoted to major .

At the beginning of the Franco-Russian War in 1812 , Potier, like the other three French engineers , was exiled to Yaroslavl , Poschechonje and finally Irkutsk . After the end of the war, Potier was brought back to St. Petersburg in 1815, where he continued to teach at the Institute of the Transport Engineering Corps and was promoted to Podpolkownik . He wrote textbooks in French , which Sevastyanov translated into Russian . With a promotion to Polkownik Potier was transferred to the IVth traffic route district in February 1818. In place of Maurice Destrem, he explored the connection between Donets and Volga . In August 1818 he became director of the 1st department of the 4th district.

After promotion to major general in 1823, Potier became head of the projects and evaluations commission. In 1824 he was appointed to the Transport Council. In 1834, as Lieutenant General , he became director of the Institute of the Transport Engineering Corps, succeeding Pierre-Dominique Bazaine. In 1836 he resigned from the service and settled on his estate in the village of Klarowka. Andrei Danilowitsch Gotman became director of the Institute of the Transport Engineering Corps .

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Потье, Карл Иванович . In: Русский биографический словарь А. А. Половцова . tape 14 , 1910, pp. 717-718 ( Wikisource [accessed July 12, 2018]).
  2. ↑ a b c Петербургский государственный университет путей сообщения Императора Александра I: К.И. Потье (accessed July 12, 2018).
  3. ↑ Основания начертательной геометрии для употребления воспитанниками Института Корпуса инженеря . St. Petersburg 1816.
  4. ↑ Начальные основания разрезки камней (Traite de la coupe des pierres, par Potier) . St. Petersburg 1818.
  5. ↑ Приложение начертательной геометрии к рисованию . St. Petersburg 1818.
  6. ↑ Россия. Корпус инженеров путей сообщения. Список генералитета, штаб и обер-офицеров Корпуса инженеров путей сообщения . 1825, p. 9 ( rsl.ru [accessed July 12, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Potier, Charles Michel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Потье, Карл Иванович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franco-Russian traffic engineer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1786
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1855
Place of death Klarowke, Dneprowski - Ujesd