Friedrich Seeberg
Friedrich Seeberg ( Russian Фридрих Георгиевич Зееберг ; born September 27, jul. / 9. October 1872 greg. In Saint Petersburg , † 1902 in the East Siberian Sea ) was a Russian astronomer and polar explorer Baltic German descent.
Life
Friedrich Seeberg was the son of Pastor Georg Theodor Seeberg and his wife Caroline, née Elverfeldt. He visited 1881/82 the St. Anne School in Saint Petersburg and from 1882, after his father pastor in Courland Doblen had become the local miner Schultze private school. From 1886 to 1889 he was a student at the grammar school in Mitau . He then worked as a private tutor in Lesten . After a trip to Italy, he did his military service with the sappers in Vilnius in 1891/92 . He then studied mathematics and astronomy at the University of Dorpat until 1897 . He was briefly tutor to the governor of Vologda , but was still in 1897 senior teacher of mathematics and physics at the Reformed School in Saint Petersburg.
In 1900 he joined the Russian Arctic expedition as an astronomer and meteorologist with the schooner Sarja , which was under the direction of Eduard von Toll . The aim of the expedition was the search for Sannikow Land . After two winter stays on the Taimyr peninsula and on the west coast of the island of Kotelny , Toll and Seeberg explored Bennett Island in the summer of 1902 . In November 1902 they disappeared south of Bennett Island without a trace. A rescue expedition led by Alexander Kolchak found the diaries, Seeberg's map of Bennett Island and the scientific collections of the Zarya expedition, Toll, Seeberg and their hunters, Evenke Nikolai Protodjakonow and Yakut Vasily Gorochow, but remained lost.
Honors
Several geographical objects are named after Friedrich Seeberg :
- a bay of the Taimyr peninsula and the river that flows into it, and a nearby mountain,
- a plateau and a river in the central part of Kotelnys,
- a glacier on Bennett Island.
A memorial in Mitau commemorates him.
literature
- William Barr: Baron Eduard von Toll's Last Expedition: The Russian Polar Expedition, 1900–1903 (PDF; 5.59 MB). In: Arctic 34, 1980, pp. 201–224 (English)
- Article in the Düna newspaper from January 18, 1906
Individual evidence
- ^ Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Friedrich Seeberg. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
- ↑ GP Awetissow: Seberg Fridrich Georgijewitsch (1872-1902) . In: Imena na Karte Rossijskoi Arktiki , Nauka, Sankt Petersburg 2003, ISBN 5-02-025003-1 , accessed on August 26, 2017 (Russian).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Seeberg, Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Зееберг, Фридрих Георгиевич (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian astronomer and polar explorer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 9, 1872 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Petersburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1902 |
| Place of death | East Siberian Sea |