Vissarion Grigoryevich Alexeev

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Wissarion Alexejew (photo from the 1920s)

Vissarion Grigorievich Alexeyev ( Russian Виссарион Григорьевич Алексеев ; Estonian Vissarion Grigorjevitš Aleksejev born July 6, jul. / 18th July  1866 greg. In Novocherkassk , †  1943 in Poland ) was an in Estonia active Russian mathematician .

Life and science

Vissarion Alexeyev was the son of a Don Cossack born -Führers. He attended the Novocherkassk grammar school from 1875 to 1884.

Alexejew studied mathematics at the University of Moscow from 1884 to 1888 . From 1891 to 1895 he was a private lecturer in Moscow. From 1893 to 1895 study trips took him to Zurich , Paris and Leipzig . In 1899 he passed his candidate exam in Moscow .

From 1895 to 1902 Alexejew worked as an associate professor and from 1902 to 1918 as a full professor at the university in Tartu, Livonia . At that time it was called Yuryev Imperial University .

1908/09 was Alexejew Vice Rector of the University. From 1909 to 1914 and 1917/18 he was its rector. In 1918, Alexejew directed the relocation of the university to Voronezh, Russia, due to the war . Alexeyev stayed there until 1920.

With the final victory of the Bolsheviks in Soviet Russia , the proclamation of Estonian independence and the peace treaty of Tartu , Alexejew returned to Tartu in 1920. He opted for Estonian citizenship. From 1921 to 1939 he worked as a private lecturer at the University of Tartu.

Vissarion Alexejew died in occupied Poland in 1943.

Private life

Wissarion Alexejew was married to Elisabeth Kollmann. Both had the adopted son Viktor Alexejew (1902-1945).

literature

  • Album rectorum Universitatis Tartuensis 1632–1997. Tartu 1997
  • Eesti elulood. Tallinn: Eesti entsüklopeediakirjastus 2000 (= Eesti entsüklopeedia 14) ISBN 9985-70-064-3 , p. 15

Web links

Commons : Wissarion Alexejew  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www2.kirmus.ee/biblioserver/isik/index.php?id=56
personal data
SURNAME Alexejew, Wissarion Grigoryevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aleksejev, Vissarion Grigorjevitš; Алексеев, Виссарион Григорьевич (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Novocherkassk
DATE OF DEATH 1943
Place of death Poland