Vasily Petrovich Yegorschin
Vasily Petrovich Jegorschin ( Russian Василий Петрович Егоршин ; born December 14, 1898 in Kuvakino , Simbirsk Governorate ; † 1985 ) was a Soviet physicist and philosopher.
Yegorschin began studying at the Kazan University in 1916 . He had been active in various revolutionary parties since 1915, initially underground, took part in the 1917 February Revolution in Alatyr and was elected to the workers 'and soldiers' council there. From 1918 on he took on various positions as an education officer, including as head of the provincial department for national education in Barnaul .
In 1921 he returned to Moscow and resumed his scientific studies. His research interests focus on the application of Marxist methodology to the natural sciences. He was one of the first teachers at the Institute of the Red Professorship . He propagated the theory of dialectical materialism among students and scholars. Throughout the 1920s, Yegorschin was a member of the philosophical section of the Communist Academy, a member of several scientific Marxist societies and a regular contributor to the journals Under the Banner of Marxism and Natural Science and Marxism . From 1927 to 1928 he was secretary of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics at Moscow State University (MSU), where he was since 1927 a research assistant in the research field of the history and philosophy of natural sciences. In 1928 he went to Novocherkassk on instructions from the CPSU and was rector of the South Russian State Technical University there until 1929 when he returned to Moscow as deputy head of the main science department of the People's Commissariat for Education of the Russian SFSR .
In April 1930 he became a professor at Moscow State University (MSU) and there in 1931 a full member of the Research Institute of Physics (NIIPh). In August 1932 he moved to the post of chief engineer at the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute .
In an essay from 1931, Yegorschin criticized the then director of the Physics Institute of the MSU, Boris Gessen , for lack of a "Bolshevik spirit". Gessen fell victim to the Stalinist purges in 1936. In 1933, Yegorschin's philosophical views were criticized by Igor Tamm .
In 1936, Yegorschin was expelled from the CPSU and only accepted again in 1957. Yegorschin also worked as a teacher and researcher at various Moscow institutes during the period of his expulsion from the CPSU.
Jegorschin was also active as a science historian, including a dissertation on Galileo or as editor and translator of historically significant scientific works such as B. by Johann Bernoulli , Leonhard Euler or Jean D'Alembert .
Web links
- Yegorschin, WP (1928-1929). South Russian State Technical University (Russian).
- Skorik, AP, Revin IA, Danikhno SA: Vasily Petrovich Jegorschin - The youngest rector . In: Higher Education in Russia . No. 10 , 2007, p. 131–136 (Russian, vovr.ru [PDF] Скорик, А., Ревин И., Данихно С. Самый молодой ректор // Высшее образивание в Санихно С.
Individual evidence
- ^ WO Jegorschin: On the situation at the front of physics and the tasks of the society of materialistic physicists at the KomAkademie . In: For Marxist-Leninist natural sciences . No. 1 , 1931, p. 106–128 (Russian, quoted from Gorelik, Meine anti- Sovietische activity , Vieweg 1995, p. 47).
- ↑ VS Kirsanov: DESTROYED BOOKS: ECHO OF STALIN TERROR IN THE SOVIET HISTORY OF SCIENCE . In: VIET . No. 4 , 2004, p. 105–124 (Russian, in the Russian original: В. С. КИРСАНОВ, УНИЧТОЖЕННЫЕ КНИГИ: ЭХО СТАЛИНСКОГО ТЕРРОРА В СОВЕ.ТСКОЙ ИСТОРИ. НИ No4.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Yegorschin, Vasily Petrovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Егоршин, Василий Петрович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet physicist and philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 14, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kuvakino , Simbirsk Governorate |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1985 |