Gottlieb Wilhelm Ludloff

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Gottlieb Wilhelm Ludloff (born April 15, 1782 in Arnstadt , † 1840 in Saint Petersburg ) was an Imperial Russian mining official.

Life

Gottlieb Ludloff was a son of Gottlieb Friedrich Ludloff , attended the Freiberg mining academy and emigrated from Germany to Russia in 1800 as a mining official .

From 1801 he was a "corresponding member" of the Society for the Entire Mineralogy (SGM) founded in Jena in 1796 .

In his 1804 report to the SGM, he describes his discovery of a copper ore that phosphoresces in the dark.

From 1806 to 1807 he took part in an "adventurous" expedition to Novaya Zemlya on behalf of the Russian government .

There was a tradition that abundant silver deposits were to be found on this double island. Therefore, in 1806 the then Russian Chancellor, Count Rumjanzew , put together a team of experts at his expense, including Ludloff. In 1806 Ludloff arrived in Archangel , then, contrary to the recommendation to wait for better weather, traveled on to Kola by reindeer . Here he had to wait until he could continue by ship. Due to a lack of planning and experience, an odyssey began.

After arriving on Novaya Zemlya, neither evidence of mining nor silver deposits could be discovered. On the way back after the unsuccessful expedition to the double island, he discovered sulfur and copper- chalcedony deposits at a rest area. From Archangel he traveled directly to Saint Petersburg to meet the Chancellor Rumyantsev, who rewarded him “generously”. Ludloff was then promoted to Markscheider . Gottlieb Ludloff was the first geologist to visit the Russian double island of Novaya Zemlya and put forward the thesis that, contrary to the opinion of the time, the island cannot be regarded as the foothills of the Urals .

Travel reports with his name can be found in New General Geographic Ephemeris and Contributions to Schwarzburgische Heimatskunde . In 1818 Ludloff Markscheider was with the Goroblogodatschen mines in the Werchotur district of the Permian government.

Reports (selection)

  • In: Writings of the Herzogliche Societät für die Gesammte Mineralogie, Volume 1, Jena, 1804

literature

credentials

  1. ↑ The Bergakademie zu Freiberg: in memory of the celebration of Werner's centenary on September 25, 1850 . Engelhardt, 1850 ( google.de [accessed November 25, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Benigna Varolin Kasztner Bakk: “The stone in the ring of society. On the 'practical' construction of the mineral in Weimar-Jena around 1800 ” . In: University of Vienna (Ed.): Dissertation . Vienna 2014.
  3. ^ Franz Ambrosius Reuss: Textbook of Mineralogy: executed according to the OBR Karsten mineralogical tables. Which contains additions, amendments and registers . Jacobäer, 1806 ( google.de [accessed December 29, 2017]).
  4. ^ Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexikon: General German real encyclopedia for the educated classes: Conversations-Lexikon . 1827 ( google.de [accessed November 25, 2017]).
  5. ↑ a b c d e New general geographical ephemeris . Verlag des Landes-Industrie-Comptoirs, 1818 ( google.de [accessed on November 25, 2017]).
  6. ^ Paul Anton Fedor Konstantin Possart: Das Kaiserthum Russia: T. Topologie . Literatur-Comptoir, 1841 ( google.de [accessed November 25, 2017]).
  7. ↑ [Thilo Irmisch:] A Thuringian on Nova-Zembla. In contributions to the Schwarzburgische Heimatskunde. By Th. Irmisch. [Ed. by Gustav Wilhelm Hallensleben.] Second volume. Sondershausen 1906. pp. 298-304. (Reprint from the government and news bulletin for the Principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen 1875.)
personal data
SURNAME Ludloff, Gottlieb Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION imperial Russian mining officer
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1782
PLACE OF BIRTH Arnstadt
DATE OF DEATH 1840
Place of death St. Petersburg