Sergey Glazenap

Called Sergei of Glasenapp, Russia Sergei Pavlovich Glasenapp (Russian: Сергей Павлович Глазенап; * 13.jul / 25 September 1848greg in Alfimenje at Wyschni Wolotschok, Tver province, .. † April 12, 1937 in Leningrad ), Prof. Dr. astr. , was professor of astronomy at the University of St. Petersburg, director of the local University Observatory and Imperial Russian Real State Council.

He was a founder and longtime chairman of Russian Astronomers Association and honorary member of the Imperial Russian and later Soviet Academy of Sciences.

Family

Glasenapp came from the Pomeranian noble family Glasenapp.

He married in 1886 in St. Petersburg Tatiana Vasilyeva (* January 1, 1864 at the Aral Sea; † after 1937), from Russian nobility, daughter of the Imperial Russian army doctor and Real State Council Sachar Vasilyev and the adoptive daughter of Olga Nikolaevna Butakow, born Besobrasov.

Life

Glasenapp studied until 1870 at the St. Petersburg University; it was followed by study visits from 1870 to 1878 in Pulkovo and Germany. Since 1877 he worked at the University in St. Petersburg, from 1885 to 1924 as a professor.

In 1881 was built on glass Apps initiative and under his leadership, the St. Petersburg University Observatory.

Glasenapp explored, inter alia, the motion of the moons of Jupiter, the orbits of double stars and variable stars and the refraction of light in the atmosphere. In later years he worked with geodetic methods for the development of petroleum resources.

Honors and Awards

In 1920 he was made an honorary member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and in 1930 won the award Hero of the work. For his work on double stars, he was honored by the Paris Academy of Sciences.

According to him, the moon crater Glazenap and the asteroid Glasenappia was named in 1970.