Feodossi Nikolaevich Chernyshev

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F. Chernyshev

Feodosy Nikolaevich Chernyshev , Russian Феодосий Николаевич Чернышёв (born August 31 . Jul / 12. September  1856 greg. In Kiev , † December 20, 1913 jul. / 2. January  1914 greg. ) Was a Russian geologist . In older German literature he is also called Theodosius Tschernyschew .

Life

Tschernyschow went to high school in Kiev, then to the naval school and the mining academy in St. Petersburg, graduating in 1880. In the 1880s, he conducted research in the Urals on a state contract , particularly on the deposits and fossils of the Devonian . From 1882 he was with the Geological Institute of Russia ( Geological Committee ) and from 1903 its director as successor to Alexander Petrovich Karpinsky . In 1889/90, continuing the research of Count Alexander Keyserling, he led an expedition to the Russian Arctic ( Northern Dvina and Pechora region , Timan Ridge ). From 1892 to 1894 he researched the coal deposits in the Donets Basin and in 1895 Novaya Zemlya . In the Arctic, he found evidence of ice age flooding with sea level 150 m higher. From 1899 to 1902 he was three times in Spitzbergen as part of the Swedish-Russian degree measurement expedition . In 1903 he examined the effects of the great earthquake of 1902 in Turkestan. In 1903 he took over the management of the Mineralogical Institute of the Academy of Sciences and from 1902 to 1905 the Department of Physical Geography of the Russian Geographical Society. From 1908 to 1910 he was professor of historical geology at the Bergakademie, which he then briefly headed. He represented Russia at many international geological congresses. Due to his organizational talent, he also organized numerous geological excursions in Russia in addition to the ones he conducted himself.

In 1897 he and Karpinski organized the successful International Geological Congress in St. Petersburg (of which he was Secretary General), where he led excursions in the Urals and Donets Basin. He worked with Karpinski in the Geological Committee founded in 1882 and together with him and Sergei Nikolajewitsch Nikitin (1851–1909) in 1893 published a geological overview map of European Russia. From 1892 he mapped for the Geological Committee in the coal mining area of ​​the Donets Basin.

He was considered a connoisseur of the Russian Paleozoic Era , the geology of the Urals and the Russian Arctic. In 1902 his monograph on brachiopods of the Upper Carboniferous from the Urals and the Timan Ridge was published. In 1884 he proved that the stratigraphy of the Devonian in the Urals corresponded to the known stratification sequences in the Harz and in the Eifel. The Devonian in the Urals and its paleontology and stratigraphy was one of his main areas of research, which earned him international recognition.

In 1889 he became an associate and in 1897 a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences . For this he rearranged the geological collection.

Tschernyschow became a member of the Paleontological Society in the founding year 1912 .

He was friends with Emanuel Kayser in Marburg and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Marburg in 1903 . He was also an honorary doctor in Liège, Greifswald and Geneva. He was a member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and the Geological Society of London and deputy chairman of the Geological Association .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paleontological Journal . Volume 1, Number 1, March 1914.
personal data
SURNAME Tschernyschow, Feodossi Nikolajewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tschernyshev, Theodosius; Чернышёв, Феодосий Николаевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian geologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiev
DATE OF DEATH January 2, 1914