Philipp Ridder

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Philipp Ridder (Russian Филипп Филиппович Риддер, according to German transcription Filipp Filippowitsch Ridder ; * 1761 in Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire , † approx. 1838 in Riga ) was a Russian mining engineer , administrator and major general of the infantry corps (around 1816).

Life

Historical sources, such as Filipp Ridder i jego wremja (German: Philipp Ridder and his epoch) by the Russian author Mikhail Sergejewitsch Nemzew, indicate that the family originally came from Livonia . The Ridders were Baltic Germans ; Philip's father worked in a gold embroidery factory . After graduating from the St. Petersburg Mining School in 1779, Philipp Ridder worked in the Kolywano Voskresensky factories in the Siberian Altai Mountains until 1800 . He took part in the procurement and valuation of gold and diamonds , as a result of which he found rich polymetallic deposits on the Filippovka River, which have been called The Ridder Mine (Russian Риддерский рудник, Ridderski rudnik) since 1791 . The researcher was able to secure an ore deposit in the Kazakh town of Ridder , which was given this name in honor of the mining engineer .

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SURNAME Ridder, Philipp
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ridder, Filipp Filippowitsch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian mining engineer, administrator and major general of the infantry corps (around 1816)
DATE OF BIRTH 1761
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH around 1838
Place of death Riga