Grigory Andreevich Iossa

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Grigori Andreyevich Iossa ( Russian Григорий Андреевич Иосса ; born January 24 . Jul / 5. February  1804 greg. In Bogoslowsk , † July 27 jul. / 8. August  1874 greg. In St. Petersburg ) was a Russian mining engineer , metallurgist and University professor .

Life

Iossa, son of the immigrant German mountain tester and Thuringian shift supervisor Andrei Grigorjewitsch Iossa (* 1777 in Hessen-Darmstadt ), grew up in the Bogoslowsk copper smelter . He studied at the Bergingenieur- Korps - Institut (later St. Petersburg State Mining University ), graduating in 1823 as the best of his year with a large gold medal.

1823-1829 Iossa worked in the Urals as a supervisor in the mountain Blagodat mining operation in the central Urals near Kuschwa and on the Ilyinsk gold field, where he was the first to succeed in extracting raw platinum . 1829-1832 he studied at the Bergakademie Freiberg . After his return he was appointed professor in 1832 to the chair for metallurgy , chemistry of salts and mining sciences (including the art of tasting ) of the Bergingenieur-Korps-Institut , which he then held for 25 years. 1857-1860 he was director of the Mining Office for Congress Poland . In 1861 he became a member of the council and the science committee of the mining engineer corps . He published his work in the mountain journal , for example on the exploitation of the granite deposits at Pitkjaranta . On hard coal , clay for chamotte and pyrite of the Novgorod governorate (St. Petersburg 1855) and on sulfur production (St. Petersburg 1856) appeared as special editions .

Iossa was the older brother of Alexander Andreevich Iossa and the uncle of Nikolai Alexandrowitsch Iossa .

literature

  • E. M Sablozki: Personalities of the Mining Service of Pre-Revolutionary Russia - Short Biographical Lexicon . Gumanistika, St. Petersburg 2004 (Russian).
  • E. M Sablozki, WP Mikitjuk: The Iossas - the Germans of Russia: an encyclopedia . Moscow 1999 (Russian).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Great Soviet Encyclopedia : Iossa Grigori Andrejewitsch . Moscow 1969–1978 (Russian).
  2. ^ Iossa Grigori Andrejewitsch (Russian, accessed April 21, 2016).
  3. ↑ Grigori Andreevich Iossa's 50th anniversary . Gorny Journal 1873 No. 1 (Russian).
  4. ↑ EM Sablozki: people in the Ural mining operations (Russian retrieved on April 7, 2016).
personal data
SURNAME Iossa, Grigory Andreevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Иосса, Григорий Андреевич (Russian); Iossa, Grigory Andreevich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian mining engineer and metallurgist
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH Bogoslovsk
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1874
Place of death St. Petersburg