Pyotr Ivanovich Krotov

Pyotr Iwanowitsch Krotow ( Russian Пётр Иванович Кротов ; * September 20, ^July / October 2,  1852 ^greg. In Jelowo, Ujesd Glasow , Vyatka Governorate ; † November 24, ^July / December 7,  1914 ^greg. ) Was a Russian geologist and University professor .

Life

Krotov, the son of a priest, attended the Vyatka Spiritual Seminary and then studied at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics at the University of Kazan , graduating in 1878 as a candidate . He remained at the university as assistant to the prorector at the zootomy cabinet. In 1879 he became an extraordinary assistant. In 1880 he defended his dissertation pro venia legendi on minerals in fossils . He then gave lectures on mineralogy and geology in the medical faculty of Kazan University. In 1884 he became the curator of the zootomy cabinet. In the 1880s he taught at a private girls' high school.

In 1885 Krotow defended his master's thesis on the Artinskium and became master of mineralogy and geognosy . In the following winter semesters he held orography and hydrography lectures as a private lecturer at the physical-mathematical faculty of the University of Kazan. After being with his work on geological surveys on the western flank of the Urals in Cherdyn and Solikamsk the doctor had his doctorate, he became an adjunct professor at the Institute for Geography . In 1895, after submitting a geography document, he became a regular professor. He built a geographical cabinet. After the death of Alexander Antonowitsch Stuckenberg in 1905, Krotow was entrusted with the management of the chair for geology while retaining the chair for geography and ethnography , where he was succeeded by Bruno Fridrichowitsch Adler in 1911 .

In 1905 Krotow was accepted as a member and employee of the Society of Natural Scientists at the University of Kazan. He was then sent to Munich to study with Ernst Weinschenk . 1907–1913 he was dean of the physics and mathematics faculty at Kazan University. In 1911 he gave lectures on igneous rock and carried out an exercise in microscopy . Krotov's main areas of work were general geology, stratigraphy , tectonics , paleontology and physical geography of the Urals, the western pre-Urals and the Volga region .

Krotow took part in the Congress of Anthropology and Prehistoric Archeology (1892), the International Geological Congress in St. Petersburg in 1897, the 11th and 12th Meetings of Russian Naturalists and Doctors, and the Conference on Modern Geodynamics in St. Petersburg in 1903. He was a member of the Russian Geographical Society , the Russian Mineralogical Society and the Statistics Committee in Vyatka.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Кротов (Петр Иванович) . In: Brockhaus-Efron . XVIa, 1895, p. 828 ( Wikisource [accessed February 20, 2018]).
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} University of Kazan: Кротов Петр Иванович (accessed February 20, 2018).