Dimitrij Andrusov

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Dimitrij Andrusov

Dimitrij Andrusov (born November 7, 1897 , Jurjew (now Tartu ), Russian Empire ; † April 1, 1976 , Bratislava ) was a Czechoslovak geologist of Russian descent. His scientific work at the Comenius University in Bratislava is of great importance for the exploration of the Western Carpathians . Andrusov has received diverse international recognition for this.

childhood

Dimitrij Andrusov was born in Jurjew as the son of the Russian geologist Nikolai Ivanovich Andrussow and Nadeschda Henrichowna Schliemann. Due to his family roots on his mother's side, he is a grandson of Heinrich Schliemann, who discovered Troy . He spent his childhood and youth in what is now Tartu and in Kiev , where his father taught as a university professor of geology. During this time he also took part in some of his father's research trips, the experiences of which must have shaped his later life.

education

He finished his high school education in Saint Petersburg in 1915 . He completed the first stage of his university education from 1915 to 1918 at the University of Saint Petersburg and continued at the Tauride National University of Simferopol . Due to the changed political situation in Russia, his father had to transfer his teaching activities from the University of St. Petersburg to Simferopol. The family finally went into exile in France because of the increasingly uncertain conditions of the civil war in southern Russia . From 1920 to 1922 Dimitrij Andrusov studied at the Sorbonne in Paris . When his father got a professorship in Prague in 1922 , the family moved again. From 1922 to 1923 he continued his education at the chemical-technological faculty in the Czech Technical University in Prague and graduated in 1925 with studies at the natural science faculty of Charles University in Prague . There he received his doctorate in natural sciences. His teachers included Radim Kettner , Maurice Lugeon and Émile Haug .

Life

Comenius University in Bratislava

From 1929 to 1938 he worked at the Charles University as a research assistant and lecturer. In 1938 he took over the management of the Geological Institute at the Slovak Technical University (STU) in Košice as an associate professor. Shortly afterwards he moved the institute to Bratislava as part of the university move (1940-1949 Štátny geologický ústav; from 1949 Slovenský ústredný ústav geologický; from 1953 to 1995 Geologický ústav Dionýza Štúra).
Andrusov was also a co-founder and first director of the Geological Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, established in 1953, and at the same time head of the Geological Commission in the academy (later Geological Laboratory).

Since 1940, in the meantime appointed full professor, he has lectured at the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Comenius University in Bratislava. From 1952 to 1970 he held the chair of geology and paleontology at this university .
From 1940 to 1945 Andrusov was in charge of editing the communications of the State Geological Institute ( Práce Št. Geologického ústavu ) and from 1950 to 1964 that of the periodical Geologický zborník Geologica Carpathica (founded in 1949 as Geologický zborník SAV ).

The scientific achievements are diverse and documented with over 300 individual publications. He had declared the research of the Carpathian system to be his central life task and he played a prominent role among his scientific colleagues in this field.
From 1931 on, Andrusov worked increasingly on the stratigraphic and tectonic relationships of the Western Carpathians on the basis of modern knowledge. In the course of this extensive work, he made a major contribution to today's geological understanding of the Carpathian system, especially its offshore cliff zone.

His versatile language skills (Russian, Slovak, Czech, German, French) made it possible to have broad contacts with scholars abroad. Andrusov was in close contact with many foreign geoscientific institutions, especially Austria, and stayed in Vienna repeatedly until his death to give lectures about the latest findings from his research.

Memberships and awards

Selected Works

  • A. Matějka / D. Andrusov: Aperçu de la geologie des Carpathes occid. de la Slovaquie central et des rég. avoisinantes . Praha (Knihovna Stát. Geol. Ústav, vol. 13) 1931
  • Dimitrij Andrusov: Étude geologique de la Zone des Klippes internes des Carpathes occidentales . Prague 1938
  • Dimitrij Andrusov: Geology Slovenska . Prague 1938
  • Dimitrij Andrusov: Geology and Mineral Resources of Slovakia . (Slovak), Bratislava 1943
  • Dimitrij Andrusov: Étude géologique de la zone des Klippes internes des Carpathes Occidentales. Bratislava (Geologické Práce Slovenske Akademie Vied & Úmetnosti, 34) 1953
  • Dimitrij Andrusov: Geológia československých Karpát I., II., III . Bratislava (Slovenska Akademia Vied) 1958, 1959, 1964
  • Dimitrij Andrusov: Geology of the Czechoslovak Carpathians . 2 vol. German edition, Bratislava (publ. By the Slovak Academy of Science), Berlin (Akademie-Verlag) 1964, 1965
  • Dimitrij Andrusov: Floor plan of the tectonics of the Northern Carpathians . Bratislava (Publishing House of the Slovak Academy of Sciences) 1968
  • D. Andrusov / J. Bystrický / V. Fusán: Outline of the Structure of the West Carpathians . In: Guide-book for geological excursion X. Congress CBGA. Bratislava (GÚDŠ) 1973
  • Dimitrij Andrusov: Stratigrafický slovník Západných Karpát 1 . Bratislava 1983

literature

  • Pavol Grecula: História geológie na Slovensku . Bratislava (Vydavateľstvo Dionýza Štúra) 2006 ISBN 80-88974-89-5
  • Jozef Michalik: About the Geological Institute of the SAS and the journal Geologica Carpathica . Bratislava 1999
  • B. Plöchinger: Dimitrij Andrusov . in: Communications of the Austrian geol. Ges. (69) Vienna 1976, pp. 353-356

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personal data
SURNAME Andrusov, Dimitrij
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak geologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Jurjew , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1976
Place of death Bratislava