Dmitri Nikolajewitsch Seiliger

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Dmitri Nikolayevich Seiliger born Samuil Seiliger , ( Russian Дмитрий Николаевич Зейлигер , maiden name Самуил Зейлигер ; born May 12 . Jul / 24. May  1864 greg. In Tiraspol ; † 25. June 1936 in Rostov-on-Don ) was a Russian mathematician , physicist and university professors .

Life

Seiliger came from a Jewish merchant family. He studied at the physical - mathematical faculty of the Imperial New Russian University in Odessa , graduating in 1887. In 1891 he received a master's degree there and in 1892 a private lecturer at the chair of mechanics . In 1894 he received his doctorate in applied mechanics from Moscow University .

In 1895 Seiliger became an associate professor at the University of Kazan and in 1899 a full professor with the head of the chair of mechanics. In 1910 he founded the first aeronautical association at the university . In 1914 he was dismissed from the university because of unreliable political views. He then taught at the University of Petrograd until 1917 and again at the University of Kazan after the October Revolution . Together with his student Nikolai Gurjewitsch Tschetajew and the university rector, he organized aeronautics training at the university. When the forestry faculty was established at the university in 1917 , Seiliger was appointed head of the chair for mechanical wood technology. In 1919 he became the rector of the new Kazan Polytechnic Institute and head of the Faculty of Economics . In 1927, on Seiliger's initiative, the aerodynamics department was established at the University of Kazan .

1929–1933 Seiliger was professor and head of the new chair for mathematics at the Montaninstitut in Stalino . 1932–1936 he headed the chair for theoretical mechanics at the North Caucasus Industrial Institute in Novocherkassk .

Seiliger's brother Philipp Nikolajewitsch Seiliger (1863–1937) was a lawyer . In 1906 he defended the mutineers of the armored cruiser Georgi Pobedonossez in Sevastopol and Anatoly Wassiljewitsch Lunatscharski in Terijoki , was a Social Revolutionary , was accepted into the Russian nobility in 1910 and was arrested several times after the October Revolution. His son Sergei Philippowitsch Seiliger (1897–1929) was a doctor of philosophy and a radio technician at Telefunken in Berlin . His daughter Jelena Philippovna Seiliger was a research assistant at the Institute for Chemical Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and a friend of Nina Nikolayevna Berberova .

Honors

  • Honored Scientist of the RSFSR (1927)

Individual evidence

  1. Biografija.ru: Зейлигер Дмитрий Николаевич (accessed December 7, 2017).
  2. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project: Dmitrii Nikolaevich Zeiyliger (accessed December 7, 2017).
  3. a b c Зейлигер (Дмитрий Николаевич) . In: Brockhaus-Efron . Ia, 1905, p. 776 ( Wikisource [accessed December 7, 2017]).
  4. Зейлигер, Дмитрий Николаевич . In: Еврейская энциклопедия Брокгауза и Ефрона . tape 7 , p. 717 ( Wikisource [accessed December 7, 2017]).
  5. В. А. ВОЛКОВ, М. В. КУЛИКОВА: РОССИЙСКАЯ ПРОФЕССУРА: ПОД КОЛПАКОМ У ВЛАСТИ (accessed December 7, 2017).
  6. ^ The list of students and foreign attendees of Novorossiysk Imperial University for 1883–1884 academic year (accessed December 7, 2017).
  7. Математика и механика в Казанском университете (accessed December 7, 2017).
  8. Тимофей Григорьевич Фоменко: У ПОДНОЖИЯ (воспоминания) (accessed December 7, 2017).
  9. Сергей Филиппович Зейлигер (accessed December 7, 2017).