Johann Christian Stuckenberg

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Johann Christian Stuckenberg ( Russian Иван Фёдорович Штукенберг * 6. February 1788 in Blankenburg , Duchy of Oldenburg , † May 9. . Jul / 21st May  1856 greg. In St. Petersburg ) was a German - Russian geographer , hydrograph and author .

Life

Stuckenberg, son of the Blankenburg monastery administrator, was orphaned early and grew up with relatives near Magdeburg . After attending school, he studied at the Georg-August University in Göttingen , the University of Jena and the Friedrich Alexander University . There he joined the Erlangen Westphalia . He traveled to St. Petersburg in 1807 and joined the Russian army. He became a non-commissioned officer in the naval artillery . When Prince Georg von Oldenburg came to St. Petersburg soon afterwards , Stuckenberg enjoyed the prince's support. He then moved to the engineer corps in 1811 and worked on the general staff of the Russian-German contingent during the French attack in 1812 and the subsequent Sixth Coalition War . He participated in the Battle of Smolensk (1812) , the Battle of Borodino and the Battle of Bautzen .

Until 1851 Stuckenberg worked in the Ministry for State Property. He wrote geographical , hydrographic and historical articles for Adolphe Pluchart's Encyclopedic Lexicon and Baron Ludwig von Seddeler's Military Encyclopedic Lexicon . He published a number of important papers on Russian geography in German . For his description of all channels in the Russian Empire , he received half the Demidow Prize . He was a real member of the Russian Geographical Society . Stuckenberg left the civil service in 1851 and became librarian at the Rumyantsev Museum in St. Petersburg, which was moved to Moscow in 1861 .

After Stuckenberg's death his statistical work was published by his son Anton Iwanowitsch Stuckenberg .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Созидательные традиции Штукенбергов (accessed February 21, 2018).
  2. ↑ a b c d e Штукенберг (Иван Федорович, Johann Christian Stuckenberg) . In: Brockhaus-Efron . XXXIXa, 1903, p. 935 ( Wikisource [accessed February 21, 2018]).
  3. ↑ a b c Большая биографическая энциклопедия: Штукенберг, Иван Федорович (accessed February 21, 2018).
  4. ↑ Hans-Otto Keunecke : A register as a historical source. On the history of the Westphalian Landsmannschaft in Erlangen 1794–1809 . Einst und Jetzt, Vol. 27 (1982), pp. 139-154, here p. 149.
  5. ↑ J. Ch. Stuckenberg: Hydrography of the Russian Empire, Baltic Basin from the Oder to the Tornea . St. Petersburg 1844.
  6. ↑ J. Ch. Stuckenberg: Bassin des Oceans from the Norwegian border to the Chinese . St. Petersburg 1844.
  7. ↑ J. Ch. Stuckenberg: Basin of the Black Sea . St. Petersburg 1847.
  8. ↑ J. Ch. Stuckenberg: Hydrography of the Russian Empire or geographical-statistical-technical description of its flowable and navigable rivers and lakes, its coasts, inner seas, ports and ancillaries (4 volumes) . St. Petersburg 1849.
  9. ↑ J. Ch. Stuckenberg: Description of all dug or projected navigable and flowable canals in the Russian Empire, in historical-statistical-technical relation, based on the most complete and reliable sources . St. Petersburg 1841.
  10. ↑ Статистические труды Штукенберга (2 volumes) . St. Petersburg 1860.
  11. ↑ Иван Федорович Штукенберг и его сочинения . In: Петербургские Ведомости . No. 52 , 1857.
  12. ↑ Иван Федорович Штукенберг и его сочинения . In: Журнал Министерства Народного Просвещения . 1857.
personal data
SURNAME Stuckenberg, Johann Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Штукенберг, Иван Фёдорович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian geographer, hydrograph and author
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1788
PLACE OF BIRTH Blankenburg , Duchy of Oldenburg
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1856
Place of death St. Petersburg