Karol Bohdanowicz
Karol Bohdanowicz ( Russian Карл Богданович ; born November 29 . Jul / 11. December 1864 greg. In Ludsen , Vitebsk , Russian Empire ; † 5. June 1947 in Warsaw , Republic of Poland ) was a Polish - Russian geologist and university professor .
Life
Bohdanowicz came from a Belarusian Roman Catholic Szlachta family. His parents were the judge Jan Pawel Bohdanowicz and Zofia Kononowicz. He attended the military high school in Nizhny Novgorod (1874–1881) and then studied at the mining department of the St. Petersburg Mining Institute , graduating in 1886 as a mining engineer. As early as 1885 he took part in the geological expedition Feodossi Nikolajewitsch Tschernyschows to investigate the ore deposits in the Urals . After completing his studies, he carried out geographic and geological surveys in the Trans-Caspian Oblast and in Northeast Persia .
In 1889 Bohdanowicz took part as a geologist in the expedition of the Imperial Geological Society led by Mikhail Wassiljewitsch Pewzows to Tibet and the Kunlun Mountains. 1893-1894 he headed a research group in Siberia between Ob and Baikal . 1895–1898 he examined the geological structure and the gold deposits on the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk and on Kamchatka on behalf of the Ministry of Agriculture and State Property at the head of an expedition . In the fall of 1898 he carried out geological surveys on the southern tip of the Liaodong Peninsula . In 1900 he participated in the expedition on leave Colonel of the Guards Vladimir Mikhailovich Wonljarljarski to search for gold on the Chukchi Peninsula in part. In 1901 he carried out geological surveys of the main ridge of the Eastern Caucasus on behalf of the Geolkom (Geological Committee of the All-Russian Geological Institute) with two new crossings at the Schachdag Mountain and at Bazardüzü .
In 1902 Bohdanowicz became professor at the chair for geology and ore deposits at the St. Petersburg Mining Institute. In February 1909 he became familiar with earthquake problems in Italy . He explored the oil deposits in the Kuban area , near Baku and in Kazakhstan . In 1910 he got to know the oil fields in Romania and Austria-Hungary . He supported Polish scientists and students, including Józef Łukaszewicz . Bohdanowicz's students included Dmitri Iwanowitsch Muschketow , Alexander Nikolajewitsch Savarizki , Iwan Michailowitsch Gubkin and Dmitri Wassiljewitsch Naliwkin . In 1914 he became director of Geolkom as successor to Feodossi Nikolajewitsch Tschernyschows. During the First World War , the government sent him to Spain and Portugal in 1916 to investigate tungsten and platinum deposits.
After the October Revolution , Bohdanowicz emigrated to Poland in 1919 . The director of the Geolkom was Valerian Nikolayevich Weber . Bohdanowicz did not immediately find adequate employment in Poland. He prepared reports for the Polish representative group at the Versailles conference . Soon he took over the Polish representation of the oil company of the Nobel Brothers (until 1938). From 1919 he investigated oil fields near Bytkiw and Boryslaw as well as zinc and lead ore deposits near Olkusz . As a petroleum expert, he traveled to France in 1920 , to Latvia in 1922 and again to France and Algeria in 1923 .
In 1921 Bohdanowicz was appointed Professor of Geology at the Cracow Mining Academy by Józef Piłsudski . On the XVI. International Geology Congress, he familiarized himself with the oil deposits in North America . He retired in Krakow in 1935. In 1938 he became director of the State Geological Institute in Warsaw. He was the first chairman of the Polish Geological Society, chairman of the Polish Geographical Society, vice-president of the Société géologique de France , member of Polska Akademia Umiejętności , member of the Academy of Technical Sciences and member of the Warsaw Scientific Society.
On the occasion of the 100th birthday, the State Geological Institute organized an international Bohdanowicz conference in Warsaw in 1964. Polish- Soviet symposia in Warsaw in 1969, Leningrad in 1972 and in Wroclaw in 1978 were dedicated to his work.
Honors, prizes
- Gold medal at the Paris World Exhibition in 1900
- Medal of Constantine of the Imperial Geological Society (1902)
- Award from the Imperial St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1905)
- Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1936)
- Commander's Cross with Star of the Order Polonia Restituta (1946)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Богданович (Карл Иванович) . In: Brockhaus-Efron . доп. т. I, 1905, p. 278-279 ( Wikisource [accessed February 6, 2018]).
- ↑ Maślankiewicz Kazimierz: Wspomnienia o profesorze Karolu Bohdanowiczu . In: Przegląd Geologiczny . tape 12 , no. 12 , 1964, pp. 469-473 .
- ↑ Перечень награждённых знаками отличия Русского географического общества (1845–2012) . Исполнительная дирекция, Moscow 2012 ( rgo.ru [PDF; accessed on February 6, 2018]).
- ↑ Odznaczenia Orderem "Rebirth of Poland" . In: Gazeta Lwowska . No. 66 , March 20, 1936 ( jbc.bj.uj.edu.pl [accessed February 6, 2018]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bohdanowicz, Karol |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Богданович, Карл Иванович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish-Russian geologist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 11, 1864 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ludsen |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 5, 1947 |
| Place of death | Warsaw |