Nikolai Alexandrovich Iossa

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Nikolai Alexandrovich Iossa

Nikolai Alexandrowitsch Iossa ( Russian: Николай Александрович Иосса ; * 7 May July / 19 May  1845 greg. In Perm Governorate ; † 31 December 1916 jul. / 13 January  1917 greg. In St. Petersburg ) was a Russian mining engineer , Metallurgist and university professor .

Life

Iossa came from an old mining family . Grandfather Andrei Grigorjewitsch Iossa (* 1777 in Hessen-Darmstadt ), who immigrated to Russia, was a mountain tester and Thuringian shift supervisor . His father Alexander Andrejewitsch Iossa was a mining engineer and metallurgist, as was his uncle Grigori Andrejewitsch Iossa .

Iossa studied at the Bergingenieur- Korps - Institut (later St. Petersburg State Mining University ) in St. Petersburg , graduating in 1865. He then worked in the Slatouster Metallurgical Works , where he was involved in attempts to use the Bessemer process for steel production. Then he was a lecturer in metallurgy at the Mining University in Yekaterinburg .

In 1871 Iossa was appointed to the chair of metallurgy at the Bergingenieur-Korps-Institut and was appointed professor in 1882. He was a consultant for the modernization of the Demidowsk works in the Verkhneuralsk district of the Orenburg governorate and developed new types of blast furnace projects. In 1885 he became a member of the Science Committee of the Mining Engineer Corps (and in 1907 its chairman). In 1891 he became inspector of the Bergingenieur-Korps-Institut and in 1900 its director.

In 1900 Iossa became director of the State Mining Authority . He initiated the Sutschan - coal cleardown, expanded the Caucasus - mineral waters -Amt, the mining training reorganized and improved occupational safety and health and social care workers. In 1910 he founded the Russian Metallurgical Society and became its first president.

literature

  • AI Melua : Geologists and Mining Engineers of Russia: An Encyclopedia . Gumanistika, Moscow, St. Petersburg 2000 (Russian).
  • E. M Sablozki: Personalities of the Mining Service of Pre-Revolutionary Russia - Short Biographical Lexicon . Gumanistika, St. Petersburg 2004 (Russian).
  • AS Fyodorov: founder of the science of metal. Essay on the work of local scholars: metallurgists and metallographers . Nauka, Moscow 1969, pp. 124-125 (Russian).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nikolai Alexandrowitsch Iossa (Nekrolog) . Gorny Journal 1916 No. 10-12 (Russian).
  2. ^ Biographical lexicon of personalities in the natural sciences and technology: Nikolai Alexandrowitsch Iossa . Publishing house of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia , Moscow 1958, 1959 (Russian).
  3. ↑ E. M Sablozki, WP Mikitjuk: The Iossas - the Germans of Russia: an encyclopedia . Moscow 1999 (Russian).
  4. ↑ EM Sablozki: people in the Ural mining operations (Russian retrieved on April 7, 2016).
personal data
SURNAME Iossa, Nikolai Alexandrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Иосса, Николай Александрович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian mining engineer, metallurgist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Perm Governorate
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1917
Place of death St. Petersburg