Christofor Semjonowitsch Ledentsow

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Christofor Semjonowitsch Ledenzow ( Russian Христофор Семёнович Леденцов * July 24 jul. / 5. August  1842 greg. In Vologda , † March 31 jul. / 13. April  1907 greg. In Geneva ) was a Russian merchant of the first guild and Patron .

Life

Ledentsow attended the Vologda Governorate High School for boys with graduation in 1860. This was followed by studies at the Moscow Academy of Practical Commercial Law , which he graduated in 1862 with distinction and award of Russian honorary citizenship. He married Serafima Nikolajewna Beloserowa from the old Vologda merchant family Belowerow.

1871–1887 Ledenzow was a member of the Vologda city duma and 1883–1887 head of the city of Vologda. Together with the pharmacist W. K. Ferrein ( Russian Владимир Карлович Феррейн ) he built the large pharmaceutical company WK Ferrein-Genossenschaft in Moscow .

With his will from 1905 Ledenzow donated his financial fortune for the society to be founded to promote the empirical sciences and their practical applications . Ledenzow's conception for this foundation differed significantly from that of Alfred Nobel for his Nobel Prizes . The foundation's capital was 3 million rubles (1909). The society had 295 real and honorary members, an annual budget of 94,000 rubles, nine specialist committees, a library and its own magazine.

Ledenzow died of pulmonary tuberculosis in Geneva. He was transferred to Vologda and buried in the Vvedensky cemetery.

After the October Revolution , the Ledenzow Society's foundation assets were confiscated in 1918 .

In 2002 the Ledenzow Society was re-established by Ledenzow's great-granddaughter ND Lukowzewa, JS Polinow and OW Lupaina as a foundation for the promotion of empirical science and its practical applications . All of the company's materials, including letters and bank documents, are in the Central Historical Archives in Moscow. The Vologda State Science and Mathematics Lyceum bears Ledenzov's name.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ А.М. Шумилов: Христофор Семёнович Леденцов (к 150-летию со дня рождения): сборник . Vologda 1992.
  2. ↑ a b Gennady Gorelik: Andrej Sacharow: A life for science and freedom . Springer-Verlag, 2013, p. 9 .
  3. ↑ Шноль С.Э .: Христофор Семёнович Леденцов . In: Знание — Сила . No. 10 , 1996, pp. 154-159 .
  4. ↑ a b c d e Н.Н. Леденцов: Христофор Семёнович Леденцов: семья, соратники, партнёры (accessed May 27, 2017).
personal data
SURNAME Ledenzow, Christofor Semjonowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Леденцов, Христофор Семёнович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian merchant and patron
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Vologda
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1907
Place of death Geneva