Friedrich von Schubert

Friedrich Theodor Schubert (Russian Фёдор Фёдорович Шуберт, Fyodor Fyodorovich Schubert, Friedrich von Schubert, born February 12, 1789 in Saint Petersburg, † November 15, 1865 in Stuttgart) was a Russian officer and surveyor.

He was the son of German -born geographer and astronomer at the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences Friedrich Theodor von Schubert and Luise Friederike of Cronhelm ( 1764-1819 ). Schubert received mathematical lessons from his father and was from 1800 three years at the military academy in Saint Petersburg. From 1804 he worked as Militärkartograph and accompanied his father in 1805 on an expedition to the Chinese border. He participated as a staff officer in the campaigns against Turkey (1807, 1810), Sweden in Finland ( 1808/1809 ) and Napoleon ( 1806-1807 and 1812-1815 ) part, where he was wounded at the Battle of Prussian Eylau 1807, 1814 liaison officer to Prussia and was perceived diplomatic tasks. He remained until 1819 in France and took it as before in the other campaigns cartographic tasks (Flanders) true. In 1810 he became a captain and colonel in 1815. From 1819 he was head of department in the map depot of the General Staff and from 1822-1843 Head of Militärtopographischen Corps and organized in this function the cartographic recording of Russia. He worked with the director of the observatory of Dorpat Wilhelm Struve. In the 1830s the charts recording the Baltic Sea water was added to the frigate Hercules. In 1820, he became major general. 1834-1843, he was also Quartermaster General of the General Staff. From 1843 he was in the council of war, 1845, he was general of the infantry and 1846 head of the scientific advisory committee in the Ministry of War. In 1861 he retired and went traveling. In 1865, he died in Stuttgart.

In an article from 1859 about the figure of the earth, he proposed a triaxial ellipsoid.

He was a member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Arts. In both academies, he was an honorary member in 1827.

Schubert was married to Sophie Rall (1801-1833), daughter of a court bankers in Saint Petersburg. With her he had one son and three daughters, of whom Elizabeth (1820-1879), married Corwin Krukowski, mother of Sofia Kovalevskaya was. The daughter Alexandrine was married to Nicholas of this village is conquered (1809-1878), secretary of Olga of Württemberg in Stuttgart.