Ivan Vasilyevich Mushketov
Iwan Wassiljewitsch Muschketow , Russian Иван Васильевич Мушкетов (born December 28, 1849 July / 9 January 1850 greg. In Staniza Alexejewskaja , today Volgograd Oblast ; † January 10, 1902 in Saint Petersburg ) was a Russian geologist.
He was born in the Don Cossack region, graduated from the Mountain Institute in Saint Petersburg in 1872 and undertook research trips to Central Asia from 1874 to 1880, which made him famous (including the Tien Shan Mountains, Karatau Mountains, Pamir, Ferghana Region, Kudsha, Alai - and Serafshan Mountains, Turanian Depression). In 1877 he became a professor at the Berginstitut and taught from 1882 at the Institute for Transportation and from 1892 at the Women's College in Saint Petersburg. From 1882 to 1897 he worked as a geologist in the Geological Committee on the geological survey of Russia. From 1885 he headed the Physical Geography Department of the Russian Geographical Society.
He published his evaluation of his travels to Central Asia in a number of smaller publications and in his book Turkestan , the first volume of which appeared in 1886, but which remained unfinished. He corrected many things from the older travel reports by Alexander von Humboldt and Ferdinand von Richthofen . In addition to Central Asia, he dealt with the geology of the Urals: in 1877 he completed his habilitation (Russian doctorate) on the mountainous area of Slatoust. He further studied the area of Astrakhan, mineral springs, glaciers in the Caucasus and salt lakes in the Crimea. In 1887 he investigated the consequences of the Werny earthquake in Central Asia.
In 1884 he published a geological map of Turkestan in 6 sheets with Romanowsky. In 1895 his textbook on petrography appeared and he published a two-volume physical geology (1888, 1891, 1899). He also worked by giving lectures to the Russian public.
His son Dmitri Ivanovich Muschketow (1882-1938) was also a geologist who dealt with Central Asia.
The Mushketov glacier in the Saryjas chain is named after him. The same applies to the Mushketow Glacier in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.
literature
- Nikolaus Polutoff: Pioneers of geological research in Russia. In: Geologische Rundschau . Volume 31, number 7/8, 1940, pp. 457-487, doi : 10.1007 / BF01766468 .
Web links
- Russian biography with photo of the grave
- Literature by and about Iwan Wassiljewitsch Muschketow in the bibliographic database WorldCat
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Muschketov, Ivan Vasilievich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Мушкетов, Иван Васильевич (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 9, 1850 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Alexeyevskaya , Volgograd Oblast |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 10, 1902 |
| Place of death | St. Petersburg |