Carl Friedrich Schmidt
Friedrich Karl Schmidt (Russian Фёдор Богданович Шмидт, Fyodor Bogdanovich Schmidt, born January 15, 1832 in Kaisma, Governorate of Livonia, † November 8, 1908 in Saint Petersburg ) was a Russian- Baltic geologist, paleontologist and botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " F.Schmidt ".
Life and work
His father was a steward of the family of Oldekop. He attended the Cathedral School and the Gymnasium in Reval. From 1849 he studied botany at the University of Dorpat and continued his studies in Moscow. In 1853 he completed his exam candidates and then researched on behalf of the Natural History Society of Tartu, Estonia's geology. In 1855 he completed his master's degree in geology and was from 1856 to 1859 and assistant deputy director at the Botanical Garden and from 1858 lecturer at Dorpat. 1859 to 1863 he participated in a scientific expedition into the territory of the Amur and on Sakhalin Island in part ( in the succession of the previous expedition of Leopold von Schrenck ) whose findings (especially in botany ) he auswertete then in St. Petersburg. 1866/67 he led an expedition of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Siberia to the Yenisei, where they also found a mammoth, the first such specimen found by scientists with frozen soft tissues. After these expeditions he became ill and recovered to 1870 in Germany. Then he turned back to geological and paleontological studies in his native Estonia (financed by representatives of the Estonian nobility ). He was in St. Petersburg from 1872 adjoint, 1874 extraordinary and in 1884 a full member of the Academy of Sciences in the Department of geology and paleontology. He was also from 1873 twenty-seven years as Director of the Mineralogical Museum of the Academy of Sciences and he was privy. He had good connections to Sweden and Germany and visited 1884-1891 the international geological congresses and was co-organizer of the Congress in 1897 in St. Petersburg, where he led a field trip to Estonia. In 1891 he attended the occasion of the International Congress in Washington, DC the classic sites of the Silurian and Ordovician in New York, Ohio and eastern Canada.
He examined including the Silurian in the eastern Baltic region (and its trilobites ) and on Gotland with work on the stratigraphy of the Cambrian and Silurian and a 1878 published geological map of Estonia and the area of St. Petersburg. He also published on the geology of the Ice Age (the Silurian boulders he also studied ) and Silurian fish fossils. He used his work on trilobites in addition to their collection of AF Volborth ( from 1876 in the possession of the Russian Academy ) and E. Eichwald. After David Bruton Smith comprised the collection of 1408 specimens of 255 species, of which 120 were new.
He is the author of over 200 scientific publications.
In 1902 he received the Wollaston medal. He was an honorary doctorate from the University of Königsberg and corresponding member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences (1900) and member of the Geological Society of London, the Swedish and German Geological Society. He was also a member of the Berlin Geographical Society and a number of Russian scientific societies, honorary member of the Universities of Dorpat and Kazan. Since 1859 he was a corresponding member of the Learned Estonian Society.
Writings
- Studies of the Silurian formation of Estonia, Livonia and North Oesel. Archive for the Natural History of Livonia, Estonia and Courland. First Series, Second Volume, 1858, pp. 1-248
- Revision of the East Baltic Silurian trilobites, Mémoires de l' Académie des Sciences de St. - Imperiale Pétersbourg, 9 parts, 1881-1907, Part 3 by Swedish paleontologists Gerhard Holm
- On the Silurian ( and Cambrian ) strata of the Baltic Provinces of Russia, as Compared with Those of Scandinavia and the British Isles. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, Volume 38, 1882, pp. 514-536