Onésime Clerc

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Onésime Clerc

Onésime Yegorowitsch Claire , also George Onésime Clerc , ( Russian Онисим Егорович Клер ; born February 25, 1845 in Corcelles , Canton Neuchâtel , † January 18, 1920 in Yekaterinburg ) was a Russian naturalist of Swiss origin.

Life

Clerc was born in Corcelles and graduated from the Neuchâtel trade school . The family circumstances did not allow him to study at university.

In 1862 Clerc emigrated to Russia and became a French home teacher with the Trubezkois in Moscow . After taking an exam at the Imperial University of St. Petersburg , he was allowed to teach French at educational institutions. After three years in Moscow, he worked in Yaroslavl , where he participated in the work of the local Scientific Society.

In 1867, Clerc became a French teacher at the boys' high school in Yekaterinburg, which opened in 1861. He explored the nature and sights in the vicinity of Yekaterinburg. He was supported by the director of the grammar school and his colleagues, as well as the director of the Yekaterinburg Mining School, Narkis Konstantinowitsch Tschupin . He soon founded the Ural Society of Natural History Friends (UOLJ), whose secretary and then he remained president until his death, and to the Museum of UOLJ, opened the end of 1870 and later, the museum of the Sverdlovsk Oblast was.

In 1870 Clerc married the daughter of a priest Natalija Nikolajewna Solotowa, with whom he had four children. The eldest son Vladimir studied at the University of Geneva and became a biologist . The second son Modeste became a geologist . The third son Georgi became a zoologist . The youngest child Kristiana became a French teacher in Schadrinsk .

Clerc published geological and natural history works. He named botanical taxa . In the International Code of Nomenclature for Algae, Mushrooms and Plants , his name appears in the form Clerc . He was a member of more than 20 foreign and Russian scientific societies.

Clercs name bears the annual award for the best museum project in the Urals. In 2015 the first Clerc monument in Russia was erected in Yekaterinburg at the entrance to the Museum of Local History.

Honors

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Зорина Л. И .: Онисим Егорович Клер . Nauka , Moscow 1989.
  2. ↑ Онисим Егорович Клер . In: Записки Уральского общества любителей естествознания (УОЛЕ) . tape 39 , 1924, pp. III-IX .
  3. ↑ Baptiste de Coulon: Dans quelle maison de Corcelles habitait Onésime Clerc (Они́сим Его́рович Клер), fondateur du Musée d'histoire naturelle d'Iekaterinbourg (Russie), en 1862? In: Service intercommunal d'archivage (SIAr) - canton de Neuchâtel. July 24, 2014, accessed on January 29, 2020 (Fri-FR).
  4. ↑ Clerc, Onésime. Retrieved January 29, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Корепанова С. А .: История Екатеринбурга в деятельности Уральского общества любителей естествознания . Издательство УМЦ УПИ, Yekaterinburg 2013, ISBN 978-5-8295-0234-8 .
  6. ↑ Свердловский областной краеведческий музей (accessed September 22, 2018).
  7. ↑ The International Plant Names Index: Clerc, George Onésime (accessed September 22, 2018).
  8. ↑ Областная музейная премия имени О.Е. Клера (accessed September 22, 2018).
  9. ↑ В центре Екатеринбурга поставили памятник швейцарцу, который создал самый большой краеведческий краеведческу on September 22, 2018 (accessed September 22, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Clerc, onesime
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Claire, Onésime Egorovich; Clerc, George Onésime; Клер, Онисим Егорович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian naturalist of Swiss origin
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Corcelles , Canton of Neuchâtel
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 1920
Place of death Ekaterinburg