Pavel Grigoryevich Demidov

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Pavel Grigoryevich Demidov (around 1800)

Pavel Grigorievich Demidov ( Russian Павел Григорьевич Демидов * December 29, 1738 . Jul / 9. January  1739 greg. , † July 1 jul. / 13. July  1821 greg. In the village Leonowo at the Jausa (now a Moscow park)) was a Russian private scholar and patron .

Life

Demidov Column, Yaroslavl (GP Sabaneev, 1904)

Demidow was the son of Grigory Akinfijewitsch Demidows and grandson Akinfi Nikititsch Demidows . Demidow received private lessons from Professor Sigismund in Reval . He then studied natural sciences at the University of Göttingen with Albrecht von Haller , Johannes Gessner , Johann Andreas von Segner and Tobias Mayer until 1755. Then he studied metallurgy with Hofmann and chemistry and mineralogy with Christlieb Ehregott Gellert as well as the practice of ore mining for a year in Freiberg and smelting . He toured Switzerland , Italy and France . In Glasgow he received civil rights. In Sweden he studied silver mining and iron and copper ores . He met Carl von Linné , whose lectures he attended at Uppsala University . He also heard the lectures on chemistry and mineralogy by Johan Gottschalk Wallerius .

In September 1761 Demidov returned to Russia . His father died two months later. Demidow inherited the smelting works Kambarka , Roschdestvenski and Utkinsk in the Urals , the management of which he handed over to his brothers Alexander and Pyotr . Eventually he sold his works to them. Demidow continued to work scientifically and studied the mining industry . In 1763 he visited Tula , St. Petersburg , Shlisselburg and Staraya Ladoga . In the same year he married the widowed Anna Nikolajewna Sibirska nee Glebowa (1725–1766). Her first husband, Jakow Wassiljewitsch Sibirski, who died in 1742, was a descendant of Kütschüm Khan . Both marriages were childless.

1772 Demidov was that of Ivan Ivanovich Melissino 1771 at the University of Moscow was founded in literature - and Science Society Free Russian Assembly elected. In the same year he went to Germany , France and the Netherlands for medical treatment . On his return he began an exchange of letters with Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon . He sent descriptions of animals to Linnaeus, who incorporated the animals into his Systema Naturae . In 1774 Demidow and his brothers were appointed advisors to the Bergkollegium by Ukas Katharinas II .

Demidov Legal Lyceum Yaroslavl (demolished 1918)

When in 1802 Alexander I's manifesto for the establishment of ministries called for donations for education, Demidov was one of the first to respond to the call. In 1803 he donated 3,578 serf peasants worth 300 rubles per head and 120,000 rubles in cash for the establishment of a scientific college, which was realized as the Legal Demidov Lyceum in Yaroslavl (now Yaroslavl State University ). In the same year Demidov gave his scientific collection with library and 100,000 rubles to Moscow University. He then received the Order of St. Vladimir I Class. At a meeting of the governing senate , he received a gold medal with his portrait as a benefactor for science . In 1805 he donated 50,000 rubles each for teaching in future universities in Kiev and Tobolsk . The Tobolsk capital had grown to 190,000 rubles in 1881 and was used for the Tomsk University . In 1805 he was appointed to the Real Council of State (4th class ). In 1806 Demidow donated a coin cabinet with several thousand coins and medals to Moscow University .

Demidov spent his last years at his favorite country seat Leonowo on the Jausa, where there is now a Moscow park. Demidow was buried in the Andronikow monastery on the Jausa.

In 1829 the Demidov column was erected in Yaroslavl in Demidov's honor, which was demolished after the October Revolution and rebuilt in 2005. In 1851, the Ural mining companies donated the Glinka scholarship for the Demidow Lyceum. The right to nominate Glinka scholarship holders was granted in 1859 by the Most High Order to Glinka and his descendants. Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim named in honor Demidov a Galagos -Art Demidoff-Galago .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Samuel Baur : Memories from the human, ethnic and moral history of old and new times: for pleasant and instructive entertainment for all classes. VII. Volume . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1825, p. 101-110 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e А. Черкас: Демидов, Павел Григорьевич . In: Русский биографический словарь А. А. Половцова . tape 6 , 1905, pp. 223-227 ( Wikisource [accessed September 25, 2018]).
  3. ↑ В. Рудаков: Демидовы . In: Brockhaus-Efron . tape X , 1893, p. 363–365 ( Wikisource [accessed September 25, 2018]).
  4. ↑ a b Демидовский временник. Исторический альманах. Кн. II . Yekaterinburg 2008, p. 241-243 .
  5. ↑ Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Mike Grayson: The eponym dictionary of mammals . The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 2009, ISBN 978-0-8018-9304-9 , pp. 106 .
personal data
SURNAME Demidow, Pavel Grigoryevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Демидов, Павел Григорьевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian private scholar and patron
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1739
DATE OF DEATH July 13, 1821
Place of death Leonovo, Moscow