Friedrich Schmidt (geologist)
Friedrich Karl Schmidt ( Russian Фёдор Богданович Шмидт , Fjodor Bogdanowitsch Schmidt ; born January 15, 1832 in Kaisma , Livonia Governorate ; † November 8, 1908 in Saint Petersburg ) was a Russian-Baltic geologist, paleontologist and botanist. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " F.Schmidt ".
life and work
His father was the manager of the Oldekop family. Schmidt attended the cathedral school and grammar school in Reval . From 1849 he studied botany at the University of Dorpat and continued his studies in Moscow. In 1853 he passed his candidate exam and then researched the geology of Estonia on behalf of the Natural Research Society of Dorpat. In 1855 he completed his master's degree in geology and was assistant and deputy director at the Botanical Garden from 1856 to 1859 and from 1858 private lecturer in Dorpat. From 1859 to 1863 he took part in a scientific expedition to the Amur region and the Sakhalin Island (following the previous expedition by Leopold von Schrenck ), the findings of which (especially in botany) he then evaluated in St. Petersburg. In 1866/67 he led an expedition of the Russian Academy of Sciences to Siberia to the Yenisei , where they also found a mammoth , the first specimen with frozen soft tissues found by scientists. After these expeditions he fell ill and recovered in Germany until 1870. He then turned back to geological and paleontological surveys in his native Estonia (financed by representatives of the Estonian nobility). From 1872 he was adjoint, from 1874 extraordinary and from 1884 a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the Department of Geognosy and Paleontology. He was also director of the Mineralogical Museum of the Academy of Sciences for twenty-seven years from 1873, and he was a privy councilor. He had good connections to Sweden and Germany, attended the international geological congresses between 1884 and 1891 and was co-organizer of the 1897 congress in Saint Petersburg, where he led an excursion to Estonia. In 1891, on the occasion of the International Congress in Washington, DC, he also visited the classic sites of the Silurian and Ordovician in New York, Ohio and eastern Canada.
He investigated, among other things, the Silurian in the eastern Baltic (and its trilobites ) and Gotland with work on the stratigraphy of the Cambrian and Silurian and a geological map of Estonia and the area of St. Petersburg published in 1878. He also published on Ice Age geology (the Silurian debris of which he also examined) and Silurian fish fossils. For his work on trilobites, in addition to his own collection, he used that of AF Volborth (owned by the Russian Academy from 1876) and E. Eichwald. According to David Bruton , Schmidt's collection included 1,408 specimens of 255 species, of which 120 were new.
He is the author of over 200 scientific publications.
In 1902 he received the Wollaston Medal . He was an honorary doctor of the University of Königsberg and a corresponding member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences (1900) as well as a member of the Geological Society of London , the Swedish and German Geological Society. He was also a member of the Society for Geography in Berlin and a number of Russian scientific societies, honorary member of the universities of Dorpat and Kazan. From 1859 he was a corresponding member of the Estonian Scholarly Society .
Fonts
- Investigations into the Silurian Formation of Estonia, Northern Livonia and Oesel. Archives for the natural history of Liv, Estonia and Courland. First Series, Second Volume, 1858, pp. 1–248
- Revision of the East Baltic Silurian Trilobites, Mémoires de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg, 9 parts, 1881 to 1907, part 3 by the Swedish paleontologist Gerhard Holm
- On the Silurian (and Cambrian) strata of the Baltic Provinces of Russia, as compared with those of Scandinavia and the British Isles. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, Volume 38, 1882, pp. 514-536
Web links
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Friedrich Schmidt (geologist) at the IPNI
- Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Friedrich Schmidt. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
- David Bruton, Ole Hoel, Lessanu Beyene, Andrei Ivantsov: Catalog of the trilobites figured in Friedrich Schmidt's "Revision of the East Baltic Silurian Trilobites" (1881–1907). Archived from the original on March 14, 2012 ; accessed on September 12, 2018 .
- Catalog of the Trilobites figured in Friedrich Schmidt's "Revision of the East Baltic Silurian Trilobites" (1881–1907). - Paleontologisk Museum, Oslo, 1997 ( Memento from July 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bruton and colleagues succeeded in localizing around 70% of Schmidt's trilobite collection
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmidt, Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schmidt, Fyodor Bogdanowitsch; Шмидт, Фёдор Богданович (Russian spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian-Baltic geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 15, 1832 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kaisma , Livonia Governorate |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 8, 1908 |
| Place of death | St. Petersburg |