Nikolai Barbot de Marny

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Nikolai P. Barbot de Marny

Nikolai Pavlovich Barbot de Marny ( Russian Николай Павлович Барбот де Марни ; born January 31, jul. / 12. February  1829 greg. In Perm province , Russian Empire ; † April 4 jul. / 16th April  1877 greg. In Saint Petersburg ) was a Russian mining engineer, geologist and university professor.

Life

He was the son of a family of mountain officers who had emigrated from France . He received his training at the Institute of the Mining Engineer Corps in Saint Petersburg, which he graduated in 1852 with honors and the title of Lieutenant Engineer . He began his own geological investigations in the Tula governorate under the direction of geologist Christian Heinrich Pander .

In 1853 he was transferred to the Urals, where he took part in the geological expedition of Hoffman and Greenwald , which aimed at the geological survey of state-owned mining areas. From 1860 to 1862, Barbot de Marny was head of the great Manych expedition and received the gold medal of the Russian Geographical Society for his geological-geognostic study of the Kalmyk steppe .

In 1862 he was sent abroad, where he studied geological phenomena in Germany, Belgium and France and gathered information on geological museums. On his return he was appointed lecturer in geology and geognosy at the St. Petersburg Mining Institute and became a professor there in 1866 . He then conducted geological studies in many areas of the Russian Empire.

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Important discoveries made by Barbot de Marny were:

  • 1864, the exploration of the Permian layers in the northern Russian governorates,
  • 1866, co-discoverer of the geological level of the Sarmatian , together with Eduard Suess
  • 1874, the Kalmyk Steppe expedition , as part of the Amu Darya expedition of the Russian Geographical Society, the results of which proved that the sedimentary formations of the Aral-Caspian region were formed in the Cretaceous and not in the Tertiary,
  • 1876, the railway line to Orenburg .

In addition, he published the first scientific description of the iron ore deposit- Krywbas in Krivoy Rog (Ukraine). He also studied coal deposits in the Moscow region.

The scientific and journalistic work of Barbot de Marny began very early. B. in the geological studies of 1870 in the governorates of Ryazan and Tula (taking into account paleontology), in the publications of the Russian Geographical Society, in German geological publications. Most importantly, he published articles and notes in the mining journal. During his studies at the Mining Institute, he published scientific articles on the benefits of geological knowledge. As a scientist he published regularly in the Scientific Records of the St. Petersburg Mineralogical Society and in the work of the St. Petersburg Society of Natural Scientists .

Honors

Nikolai Barbot de Marny was an honorary member of many scientific societies. He was an honorary doctor of geology from the St. Petersburg Mining Institute (1866) and chairman of the Department of Mineralogy and Geology in the St. Petersburg Society for Natural History.

family

He was married to Vera Pavlovna geb. Versilova (1840-1908). His sons were:

  • Nikolai (1863–1895), born in Paris, Russian mining engineer, researched the geology of the Caucasus
  • Yevgeni (1868–1939), geologist and mining engineer, explorer of mineral extraction in open-cast mining, and Russian specialist in gold and platinum deposits, professor.

He is buried in the Orthodox cemetery in Smolensk .

Publications

Through Mangyschlak and Ust-Yurt to Turkestan , 1889

His works were well known both in Russia and abroad and have not lost their relevance to this day.

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Individual evidence

  1. according to other sources born in 1831 or 1832