Nikolai Ivanovich Koksharow
Nikolai Ivanovich Kokscharow , Russian Николай Иванович Кокшаров , (also Nikolai von Kokscharow ), (born December 5, 1818 in Öskemen , † January 2, 1893 in Saint Petersburg ) was a Russian mineralogist and major general in the Russian army.
Life
Koksharow came from a family of mining engineers and studied from 1830 at the St. Petersburg Mining Academy, which was then a military school . As an outstanding student, he accompanied Roderick Murchison and Edouard de Verneuil from 1840 and then Alexander Graf Keyserling (1840/41) on expeditions to geological exploration of the Russian Empire. From this his interest in mineralogy arose. He visited mineralogists in Europe ( William Hallowes Miller , Gustav Rose , Christian Samuel Weiss ). From 1845 he was a professor and from 1872 to 1881 he was director of the Mining Institute in Saint Petersburg.
He mainly published on minerals from the Russian Empire. He is credited with the discovery of seraphinite, a form of clinochlor .
From 1865 to 1892 he was director of the Imperial Mineralogical Society in Saint Petersburg. He was an associate member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg since 1858 and a full member since 1866 . On December 25, 1867 , he became a member of the Leopoldina with the surname TL Augustin . In 1874 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Académie des Sciences in Paris. In 1887 he became a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . The mountain Gora Koksharova in Antarctica bears his name.
Fonts
- Russian mineralogy (Russian). 5 volumes. Saint Petersburg 1852–1866
- Materials on the mineralogy of Russia (German). 11 volumes. Saint Petersburg 1853 to 1891
- Lectures on mineralogy . Volume 1. Saint Petersburg 1865 (German translation of the Russian edition of 1863)
literature
- Koksharov, Nīkolai Īvanovich von . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 15 : Italy - Kyshtym . London 1911, p. 887 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).
- Kokscharov, Nikolaj Ivanovich von . In: Christian Blangstrup (Ed.): Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon . 2nd Edition. tape 14 : Kirkeskov – Kvadratrix . JH Schultz Forlag, Copenhagen 1923, p. 283 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
Web links
- Mineralogical Record
- Literature on Koksharow. (PDF) Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
- Member entry of Nikolas Kokscharow at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on April 19, 2017.
- Nikolai Ivanovich Koksharow. Members of the predecessor academies. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed April 19, 2017 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724: Kokscharow, Nikolai Iwanowitsch. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed January 6, 2020 (Russian).
- ^ List of members since 1666: Letter K. Académie des sciences, accessed on January 6, 2020 (French, here with the name: Kokscharow, Nicolas).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Koksharow, Nikolai Ivanovich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian mineralogist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 5, 1818 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Öskemen |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 2, 1893 |
| Place of death | St. Petersburg |