Eduard Juljewitsch Petri

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Eduard Petri (1854–1899)

Eduard Juljewitsch Petri ( Russian Эдуард Юльевич Петри ; born July 13, 1854 in Sigulda , Russian Empire ; † October 10, 1899 in Saint Petersburg ) was a Russian geographer and anthropologist.

Career

Petri came from a Riga family and was born in Estonia . After high school in Saint Petersburg , where he graduated in 1875, he began studying medicine at the Imperial Medical and Surgical Academy in Saint Petersburg. Because of his involvement in nihilistic activities, he was expelled from the academy and exiled to the Arkhangelsk governorate . His relatives obtained that he was released abroad because he was unable to cope with the harsh climate of the north due to his health. So Petri continued his studies from 1878, initially in Germany and then in Bern , where he received his doctorate in 1880 with his contribution to the teaching of the inhibition apparatus of the heart under Gabriel Gustav Valentin . In the same year he married Eugenie Grünberg. The marriage resulted in the two sons Bernhard (* 1884) and Georgi (* 1888).

Eduard Petri continued his self-study in geography . According to P. von Stenin, he got the inspiration for geographical research from Alfred Kirchhoff . In the spring of 1883 Petri was qualified to teach geography and anthropology at the University of Bern . During his time as a lecturer, he developed a lively lecture activity at the Geographische Gesellschaft Bern , with several lectures appearing in the company's annual report. From 1884 to 1887 Petri was a member of the board of the Geographische Gesellschaft Bern. In 1886 he was appointed to the newly created chair for geography at the University of Bern as an associate professor .

In 1887 Petri was appointed professor to the newly established chair for geography and ethnology at the Imperial University of Saint Petersburg. Petri returned to Russia with his family, where he had been pardoned. On May 14, 1888, he was accepted as a professor of geography and anthropology at the University of Saint Petersburg as a foreign member of the specialist section for anthropology, ethnology and geography of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina .

Petri made a contribution to geographic teaching and conducted anthropological and ethnological research. He held the rank of State Councilor, was a member of numerous geographical societies and was Vice-President of the Russian Anthropological Society and the Russian Society for the Protection of Public Health. He had the Order of Saint Anne and the Order of Saint Stanislaus .

Eduard Petri died on October 10, 1899 in Saint Petersburg after a long illness of pneumonia . He found his final resting place in the Lutheran cemetery in Saint Petersburg.

Publications (selection)

(see also Петри, Эдуард Юльевич and the obituary by Eduard Petri and P. von Stenin).

  • [Russian school atlas, first published in 1898], “Учебный географический атлас”, изданный А. Ф. Марксом (1898, позже многократно переиздавался).
  • [ Critique of the aids for geographic teaching. St. Petersburg 1897], "Критический обзор иностранных пособий при преподавании и изучении географии" (СПб, 1897).
  • [ Somatic anthropology. Saint Petersburg 1895-1897], “Соматическая антропология” (СПб, 1895-1897).
  • [ Methods and principles of geography. Saint Petersburg 1892], “Методы и принципы географии” (СПб, 1892).
  • [ Basics of anthropology. Saint Petersburg 1890], “Основы антропологии” (СПб, 1890).
  • Transport and trade in their early days. St. Gallen 1888.
  • News about the Yakuts. In: Dr. A. Petermann's communications from Justus Perthes' geographical institute. Vol. 33, 1887, pp. 102-108.
  • Our relationship with the peoples of lower culture. In: Globus. 1886, pp. 279-283 and 298-302.
  • The causes of the extinction of the lower civilized peoples. In: Globus. Vol. 44, 1883.
  • Contribution to the doctrine of the inhibition apparatus of the heart. Bern 1880 (Diss. Med. Bern).

Translations from Russian into German:

  • Nikolaj Michajlovič Jadrinzev: Siberia. Jena 1886. Edited from Russian and completed by Eduard Petri.
  • Ivan L. Jaworskij: Trip of the Russian legation to Afghanistan and Bukhara in the years 1878–1879. Jena 1885. Translated from the Russian by Eduard Petri.

Translations from German into Russian:

  • Oscar Peschel : Ethnology. Translated under the editing of Prof. E. Ju. Petri based on the 6th edition supplemented by Kirchhoff. The edition appeared in 4 parts. ( Pešel ', Oskar. Narodovedenie . Perevod pod. Red. Prof. Ė. Ju. Petri s 6 izd., Dop. Kirchgofom. [Peschel-Kirchhoff-Völkerkunde]. Sankt-Peterburg: AS Suvorin, 1890. [4], 580, V-XV S., 1 l. Tabl., 24.)
  • Dr. Wilhelm Junkers Travels in Africa (Ėduard Jul'evič Petri: Putešestvija VV Junkera po Afrikě. Saint Petersburg 1893).

literature

  • Eduard Petri. †. In: Annual report of the Geographical Society Bern. 1898/99, pp. 203-204.
  • Richard Feller : The University of Bern 1834–1934. Bern 1935, pp. 369-370.
  • Eduard Juljewitsch Petri. In: Georges Grosjean : 100 Years of the Geographical Institute of the University of Bern 1886–1986. Bern 1991, pp. 34–36 (= yearbook of the Geographical Society of Bern. Vol. 56, 1986-1990, pp. 34–36).
  • Paul Messerli and Lucienne Rey: The world in Bern - Bern in the world: 125 years of geography at the University of Bern (1886–2011). Bern 2011, p. 25 (= yearbook of the Geographical Society Bern. Vol. 63, 2011).
  • P. von Stenin: Professor Dr. Eduard Petri. In: Deutsche Rundschau for Geography and Statistics. 22/1900, pp. 183-184.
  • Wilhelm Wolkenhauer: Petri, Eduard J. In: Biographisches Jahrbuch and Deutscher Nekrolog. Berlin 1900, pp. 204-205.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georges Grosjean: 100 Years of Geographical Institute at the University of Bern 1886–1986. Bern 1991, p. 35.
  2. ↑ P. von Stenin: Professor Dr. Eduard Petri. In: Deutsche Rundschau for Geography and Statistics. 22/1900, p. 183.
  3. ↑ Eduard Petri. †. P. 103: "In the autumn of 1887 he accepted a call as an associate professor of geography and ethnography at the University of St. Petersburg, where after a few years he became a full professor."
  4. ↑ Lepoldina. Official organ of the imperial Leopoldino-Carolinische Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher. 1888, Issue XXIV, No. 9/10, p. 77. No. 2726. Queryed on August 13, 2017.
  5. ↑ See also: List of members of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina / 1888 , No. 2726.
  6. ↑ Eduard Petri. †. In: Annual report of the Geographical Society Bern. 1898/99, pp. 203-204
  7. ↑ P. von Stenin: Professor Dr. Eduard Petri. In: Deutsche Rundschau for Geography and Statistics. 22/1900, pp. 183-184.
  8. ↑ Title recording. German Central Library for Medicine.
  9. ^ According to the obituary by Eduard Petri, p. 204: W. Junkers Reisewerk .
personal data
SURNAME Petri, Eduard Juljewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Petri, Eduard Gottlieb; Петри, Эдуард Юльевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian geographer and anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Sigulda , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1899
Place of death Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire