Timofei Fyodorowitsch Ossipowski

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Timofei Fyodorowitsch Ossipowski

Timofei Fedorovich Ossipowski ( Russian Тимофей Фёдорович Осиповский * January 22 . Jul / 2. February  1766 greg. In Ossipowo, Ujesd Kovrov , Vladimir province , † June 12 jul. / 24. June  1832 greg. In Moscow ) was a Russian Mathematician , physicist and university professor .

Life

Ossipowski, son of a village priest, attended the seminary in Vladimir . Before the final rhetoric course, he was sent to St. Petersburg in 1783 to the Main Pedagogical Institute, which he graduated first in 1786, because of his excellent skills . He then worked at the main elementary school in Moscow as a teacher of mathematics and Russian grammar . He frequently checked their mathematics works for the elementary school commission. During this time he developed materialistic and atheistic views.

In 1800 Ossipowski went to St. Petersburg to represent PI Gilarowski , who was ill professor of mathematics , at the main pedagogical institute . In 1801 the second volume of his mathematics course appeared with 829 pages and 11 tables on trigonometry , Euclidean geometry and spherical geometry . In 1802 the first volume with 357 pages on arithmetic appeared .

In 1803 Ossipowski received an offer from the Academy of Sciences to join the academy as an adjunct for mathematics. However, he did not accept this and followed the call of the founder of the Kharkov Imperial University W. N. Karasin to come to the new Kharkov University as a professor of mathematics. This made him one of the first nine professors at this university, including Atanasije Stojković . Ossipowski also contributed to the further development of the university. In 1805 he was formally appointed professor. In view of the insufficient educational background of the students, a preparatory class was set up on Ossipowski's initiative, in which Ossipowski also taught mechanics , optics and astronomy in various mathematics courses in addition to mathematics with the theory of functions , differential calculus , integral calculus and the calculus of variations with applications to geometry . In 1813 his student NM Archangelski took over the mechanics course while he kept the optics course and began an astronomy lecture.

In 1805, Ossipowski's translation of Étienne Bonnot de Condillac's logic appeared in Moscow . Ossipowski soon emerged as an opponent of the new German philosophy , which was represented at the University of Kharkov by the Kantian Johann Baptist Schad . The discussions also concerned the relationship with the natural sciences . At meetings of the University of Kharkov in 1807 and 1813, Ossipowski gave lectures on space and time and on the dynamic system of Kant, in which he criticized Kant's return to the idealistic philosophy of ancient Greece .

In 1813 Ossipowski became rector of Kharkov University. In 1816, in an article in Ukrainski Westnik , he proposed a calendar reform by foregoing leap years for 48 years from 1817 or 1821 in order to compensate for the delay in the Julian calendar compared to the Gregorian calendar . Ossipowski opposed every form of mysticism and philosophical idealism and criticized corresponding actions, including that of the curator of the Kharkov educational region, SJ Kornejew . As a result, Ossipowski was sent into retirement in 1820 with the honorary title of Honored Professor .

Ossipowski returned to Moscow and took up the translation of the Traité de mécanique céleste by Pierre-Simon Laplace , begun in 1802 and completed in 1822. He published his studies of the effects of the refraction of light in the earth's atmosphere on the accuracy of astronomical observations and their consideration through appropriate corrections. Other publications dealt with the theory of the motion of bodies hitting the earth and the effect of forces on the elastic body and disturbance of its equilibrium .

Ossipowski was buried in the Vagankovo Cemetery in Moscow.

A school in Kovrov bears Osipowski's name. An international student programming Olympiad is held regularly by the Kovrov State Technology Academy with the support of Vladimir Oblast , in which the Osipovsky Cup is awarded.

Web links

Commons : Timofei Fjodorowitsch Ossipowski  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Виктор Викторович Бобынин: Осиповский, Тимофей Федорович . In: Русский биографический словарь . tape 12 , 1902, pp. 384-388 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Виктор Викторович Бобынин: Осиповский (Тимофей Федорович) . In: Brockhaus-Efron . 1907.
  3. ↑ a b c d J. J. O'Connor, EF Robertson, MacTutor History of Mathematics archive : Timofei Fedorovic Osipovsky (accessed October 4, 2017).
  4. ↑ Малицкий Н. В .: История Владимирской семинарии . 3. Edition. Moscow 1902.
  5. ↑ Гобза Г .: Столетие Московской 1-й гимназии. 1804-1904 гг . Синодальная типография, Moscow 1903, p. 35 ( rsl.ru [accessed October 3, 2017]).
  6. ↑ Осиповский Т. Ф .: Курс математики. В 3-х томах. Т. I. Общая и частная Арифметика . 4th edition. КГТА, Kovrov 2007.
  7. ↑ Историко-математические исследования. Выпуск V . 1952, p. 9-27 .
  8. ↑ В. И. Саитов, Б. Л. Модзалевский: Московский некрополь, Т. 2 . St. Petersburg 1908.
  9. ↑ VII international open student's programming contest named after TFOsipovsky (accessed October 4, 2017).
  10. ↑ Новая победа программистов ЯрГУ (accessed October 4, 2017).
personal data
SURNAME Ossipowski, Timofei Fyodorowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Осиповский, Тимофей Фёдорович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian mathematician, physicist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1766
PLACE OF BIRTH Osipovo, Ujesd Kovrov , Vladimir Governorate
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 1832
Place of death Moscow