Vyacheslav Izmailovich Sresnewski
Vyacheslav Ismailowitsch Sresnewski ( Russian Вячеслав Измайлович Срезневский ; born September 21, jul. / 3. October 1849 greg. In St. Petersburg , † 1937 in Leningrad ) was a Russian Slavonic , photography pioneer and sports functionary .
Life
Sresnewski, son of the philologist Ismail Ivanovich Sresnewski , graduated from the historical - philological faculty of St. Petersburg University with degree in 1870. He continued to work scientifically and in 1877 the Master of Slavic Studies doctorate. He directed the publication of the initials of the Slavonic language of the Society for Ancient Literature. In 1878 Sresnewski became a private lecturer at the University of St. Petersburg and gave lectures on the history of the Russian language and the grammar of Church Slavonic (until 1881). He was also a Russian teacher at the 2nd Realgymnasium and at the Imperial Alexander Lyceum.
Sresnewski was a member of the Russian engineering company and founded in 1878 together with Sergei Levitsky and Dmitri Mendeleev as the fifth division of the Engineering Society, the Department of Lichtbildnerei , later Department of Photography , which he headed until 1916th From 1880 to 1890 he gave lectures on the application of photography at the St. Petersburg Institute for Transport Engineering and in the mining officer classes for engineering officers in Kronstadt . He also conducted photography courses at the technology company.
Sresnewski developed a (portable) field photo laboratory (1875), a camera protected against environmental influences for the Nikolai Prschewalskis expedition (1882), the first waterproof camera for sea photos , the first aerial camera and photo plates for aerial photography (1886) and a camera for registration the phases of a solar eclipse (1887).
Sresnewski was the editor of the Russian magazine Fotograf , published the first reference book for photography in several editions from 1881–1884 and wrote a number of specialist articles. In 1892 he organized with others the first congress for printing technology and became its secretary. In 1905 he became a Real Councilor of State. He published the magazine Fotografische Neuheiten , whose editor he was 1906-1918. In 1912 he organized the second international photo exhibition in St. Petersburg.
Sresnewski also campaigned for sport . Thanks to his authority, the speed skating and figure skating world championships were held twice in St. Petersburg (1896 and 1903) and the European ice skating championship in 1913 . 1911-1918 Sresnewski headed the Russian Olympic Committee and in 1914 the Russian delegation to the VI. Olympic Congress in Paris . His later successor was Vitaly Smirnov . Sresnewski was a member of the organizing committee of the First All-Russian Sports Olympiad in 1913 in Kiev and also that of the second All-Russian Sports Olympiad in Riga in 1914 .
After the October Revolution , Sresnewski was 1918-1923 chairman of the scientific council of the Upper Institute for Photography and Photo Technology in Petrograd .
Sresnewski's grave in St. Petersburg's Smolensk Cemetery has not been preserved. The meteorologist Boris Ismailowitsch Sresnewski and the historian Vsevolod Ismailowitsch Sresnewski were Sresnewski's brothers.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Колгушкина Нина Васильевна: Личность Вячеслава Измайловича срезневского и его вклад в науку , образование и физическую культуру России (accessed on 30 June 2017).
- ↑ Information on Vyacheslav Ismailowitsch Sresnewski in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France , accessed on June 30, 2017.
- ↑ Article Sresnewski Vyacheslav Ismailowitsch in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
- ↑ А. И. Шершень: Аэрофотосъемка. Летносъемочный процесс . Moscow 1949 ( Возникновение и первые шаги воздушного фотографирования ). (accessed on June 30, 2017)
- ↑ Создание и деятельность Российского олимпийского комитета (accessed June 30, 2017).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sresnewski, Vyacheslav Izmailovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Срезневский, Вячеслав Измайлович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian Slavist, photography pioneer and sports official |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 3, 1849 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Petersburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1937 |
| Place of death | Leningrad |