Dmitri Yevstafievich Beling

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Dmitri Beling

Dmitri Jewstafjewitsch Beling ( Russian Дмитрий Евстафьевич Белинг also Dmitrij Behling ; born September 14 . Jul / 26. September  1882 greg. In St. Petersburg , Russian Empire , † 28 May 1949 in Goettingen , Federal Republic of Germany ) was a Russian hydro biologist , limnologist and Ichthyologist of German origin. Its author's abbreviation is: Beling .

Laboratory members on May 20, 1923 in Kiev.
bottom row, second from right: Iwan Schmalhausen , next to it on the left; Dmitri Beling ; top row on the far right: Boris Balinsky

Life

Dmitri Beling was born into a German family of lawyers in Saint Petersburg, graduated from high school there in 1900 and began studying at the University of Saint Petersburg . He later moved to the biological department of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the University of St. Vladimir University in Kiev , which he graduated in 1909. He stayed at the university and from 1912 worked as a laboratory assistant in the university's zoological laboratory. He also taught at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute before the October Revolution and began in 1911 at the zoological department of the Dnepr Biological Station in Kiev. on the Truchaniv Island in the Dnieper . to work.

Between 1919 and 1921 he worked at the Tauride University in Crimea , and from 1922 until 1937 he was in charge of the transfer to Starosillja ( Старосілля ) in Vyshhorod Raion (now submerged in the Kiev reservoir ), and under the auspices of the newly founded Ukrainian Academy of the sciences , Biological Station Dnepr . After the station was converted into a hydrobiological station on February 13, 1934, Beling received the degree of Doctor of Biological Sciences in 1935 without defending a thesis.

The All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences began ideological purification in 1932 . On October 9, 1937, he was called an enemy of the people by the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences and removed from his post. He was arrested on October 28, 1937 on charges of "involvement in a counter-revolutionary organization and espionage" and confessed to membership in a Masonic lodge during interrogation . On February 24, 1938, the Academy withdrew the allegations and Beling became head of the ichthyological station.

On June 10, 1941, Dmitri Beling became director of the Hydrobiological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR and held this post even during the German occupation of Kiev, as he did not, like other scientists and professors of the University of Kiev and the Academy of Sciences, after East was evacuated. When the Wehrmacht withdrew from Kiev, he was evacuated to Poznan in 1943, along with several employees and part of the institute . From there he emigrated to Göttingen in West Germany , where he soon found employment as a professor at the University of Göttingen . Dmitri Beling died there of stomach cancer at the age of 66.

One of his students was the Ukrainian zoologist Oleksandr Markewytsch .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Article on Iwan Schmalhausen with mention of Dmitrij Behling on Reisen-kiew.com from April 13, 2013; accessed on September 4, 2018
  2. ↑ Brief description of Dmitri Beling in the illustrated electronic encyclopedia of the Germans of Russia ; accessed on September 4, 2018 (Russian)
  3. ↑ a b biography of Dmitri Beling on libris.club ; accessed on September 4, 2018 (Russian)
  4. ↑ a b biography of Dmitri Beling on famhist.ru ; accessed on September 4, 2018 (Russian)
personal data
SURNAME Beling, Dmitri Evstafievich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Белинг, Дмитрий Евстафьевич (Russian); Behling, Dmitrij
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian hydrobiologist, limnologist and ichthyologist of German origin
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1949
Place of death Göttingen , Federal Republic of Germany