Ivan Alexandrovich Stebut

Ivan Alexandrovich Stebut

Ivan Alexandrovich Stebut ( Russian Иван Александрович Стебут ; born January 31 ^{. Jul} / 12. February  1833 ^greg. In Velikiye Luki , † 20th October 1923 in Moscow ) was a Russian agronomist and university professor .

Life

Stebut attended the 2nd grammar school in St. Petersburg, graduating in 1850. He then studied at the Institute for Mountain and Agriculture (now the Belarusian State Agricultural Academy ) in Gorki . After completing his studies, he stayed there and taught from 1854. In 1856 he was sent to the Baltic Governments to study local model farms . His report was honored by the Ministry of State Property. During the subsequent three-year stay abroad, he stayed in Jena for a long time , where he studied natural sciences and especially chemistry . He got to know almost all higher agricultural educational institutions in Germany , France , Belgium and England .

After his return, Stebut became a junior professor at the Institute for Mountain and Agriculture in Gorki in 1860. He introduced seminars in which the students discussed and criticized their work. He also introduced his students to political economy . For the institute museum he acquired various collections that were exhibited at the London World Exhibition in 1862 .

1868 defended Stebut at the University of St. Petersburg his Magister - thesis about the liming was taken to restore fertility, whereupon he (later replaced by the St. Petersburg Agricultural University) to St. Petersburg Agricultural Institute. In September 1868 he was appointed to the new Petrovskaya Academy for Agriculture in Moscow . In addition to the lectures, he set up an agricultural museum as well as test fields and laboratories for independent studies by the students. He helped set up an agricultural advisory committee and a monthly magazine. He was the main organizer of the Moscow Polytechnic Exhibition in 1872. During the summers, he and his students visited Russian regions to study local agriculture. He campaigned for the support and restructuring of Russian agriculture after the peasant liberation in 1861 . He participated in important Russian and foreign exhibitions and agricultural machine competitions. The Krotkoje estate in the Tula governorate demonstrated its technical and economic work. Many scientific and agricultural societies accepted him as a member.

Stebut left the Petrovskaya Academy, which closed in February 1894 and was replaced by the new Moscow Agricultural Institute in June 1894 . However, this did not interrupt Stebut's work for agriculture. In particular, he stubbornly advocated agricultural training for women. Thanks to his efforts, the first agricultural courses for women, known as the stebut courses, were held at the Moscow agricultural training institutions in the summer of 1900. In the same way, he initiated the higher women's courses in agriculture in St. Petersburg in 1904, which marked the beginning of the St. Petersburg University of Agriculture.

Since 1898 Stebut was chairman of the science committee of the Ministry of Agriculture and State Property and at the same time a member of the Council of Ministers. He was also the curator of the Mother of God Agricultural Middle School. He published many technical articles, translations and revisions of foreign manuals.

Stebut's son Alexander Ivanovich Stebut was an agricultural scientist , soil scientist and plant breeder .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Great Soviet Encyclopedia : Стебут, Иван Александрович.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} А. Е. Якименко: СТЕ́БУТ Иван Александрович . In: Большая российская энциклопедия . ( bigenc.ru [accessed February 13, 2018]).
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Стебут (Иван Алексадрович) . In: Brockhaus-Efron . XXXIa, 1901, pp. 548-549 ( Wikisource [accessed February 13, 2018]).