Franz Franzewitsch Lesgaft

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Franz Franzevich Lesgaft ( Russian Франц Францевич Лесгафт ; born August 10 . Jul / 22. August  1833 greg. In St. Petersburg , † 1884 ) was a Russian chemist , author and translator .

Life

Lesgaft, son of a jeweler of German descent and older brother of the anatomist and sports educator Pjotr ​​Franzewitsch Lesgaft , attended the German Petri School in St. Petersburg and then graduated from the St. Petersburg Business School (the current St. Petersburg State University for Refrigeration and Food Technologies ), which he graduated with a gold medal in 1852. In 1853 he began studying at the University of St. Petersburg in the natural department of the physics and mathematics faculty , which he left as a candidate for natural sciences .

After graduation, he worked for three years at the Novgorod Graf Arakcheyev - cadet school as a lecturer in Chemistry. In 1860 he returned to St. Petersburg and taught technical chemistry and goods science at the St. Petersburg School of Commerce. From 1867 he also taught chemistry at the Nikolai Military Engineering School. In 1868 he was a member of the new technology committees directly the main Intendantur War Office (up to 1883). In his final years he taught chemistry to Dr. Wiedemann's high school.

In addition to his teaching activities, Lesgaft appeared in public as an author and translator. In 1866 (and again in 1875) his first book was published in St. Petersburg, the knowledge of raw materials and manufactured products . Also in 1866 (and again in 1873) the translation of Professor Alfred Naquets’s chemistry course appeared with additions by the translator. Under his editorship, the translation of the many-volume work Chemical Technology after Pompejus Bolley was published. In 1873 he published the work on nutrients and the importance of meat extract as an essential component of human nutrition (translation of the work of Professor Max von Pettenkofer ). In the same year he visited the World Exhibition of 1873 in Vienna and the Annual International Exhibition of 1873 in London on behalf of the War Ministry , about which he prepared thorough reports. The military almanac printed his article The production of canned meat in the Mainz Army canning factory during the Franco-German War in 1872 . In 1880 the article on canned food for the war and the Mainz army canning factory appeared in the notes of the Imperial Technical Society . Also in 1880 his translation about the baked bread by Birnbaum appeared . Lesgaft's translations made a major contribution to aligning Russian chemist training with Western standards.

Lesgaft was a member of the Russian Technical Society in the 1st Chemical Section and a member of the Chemical Free Economic Society .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lesgaft, Franz Franzewitsch . Brockhaus-Efron , St. Petersburg 1890–1907 (Russian).
  2. ↑ Ф. Лесгафт: Товароведение сырых продуктов и мануфактурных изделий . Изд. М. О. Вольфа, St. Petersburg, Moscow 1866.
  3. ↑ A. Naquet: Курс химии (translation from German by F. Lesgaft) . St. Petersburg 1866.
  4. ↑ G. Perutz, Ф. Лесгафт, P. Bolley: Химическая технология по Боллею . St. Petersburg, Moscow 1871.
  5. ↑ M. v. Pettenkofer: О питательных средствах вообще и о значении мясного экстракта , как составной части пищи человека (translation from German by F. Lesgaft) . St. Petersburg 1873.
  6. ↑ K. Birnbaum: О хлебопечении (translation from the German by F. Lesgaft) . St. Petersburg 1880.
personal data
SURNAME Lesgaft, Franz Franzewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ле́сгафт, Пётр Фра́нцевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian chemist, author and translator
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH 1884
Place of death St. Petersburg