Dimitrij Andrusov

Dimitrij Andrusov ( born November 7, 1897 Yuriev ( now Tartu ), Russia, † April 1, 1976, Bratislava ) was a Czechoslovakian geologist Russian descent. His scientific work at the Comenius University in Bratislava has a great importance for the study of the Western Carpathians. Andrusov have been awarded a variety of international recognition.

Childhood

Dimitrij Andrusov was born in Yuriev, the son of Russian geologist Nikolai Ivanovich Andrussow and Nadezhda Genrikhovna Schliemann. Through his mother's family roots, he is a grandson of the discoverer of Troy, Heinrich Schliemann. His childhood and youth was spent in today's Tartu and in Kiev, where his father taught as a university professor of geology. During this time he also took part in several expeditions of the Father, whose experiences must have been formative for his later life.

Training

He finished 1915 in Saint Petersburg His grammar school education. The first leg of his high school education, he graduated from 1915 to 1918 at the University of Saint Petersburg and continuing at the Tauride National University of Simferopol. Because of the changed political situation in Russia and his father had to move the teaching of the University of Saint Petersburg to Simferopol. The family eventually went because of the increasingly uncertain conditions of the civil war in southern Russia in exile in France. In the years 1920-1922 Dimitrij Andrusov studied at the Sorbonne in Paris. When his father got in 1922 a professorship in Prague, the family moved again. Then he sat from 1922 to 1923 his education at the Faculty of Chemical Engineering at the Czech Technical University in Prague and graduated in 1925 with studies at the Faculty of Sciences of the Charles University in Prague from. There, he earned a doctorate in natural sciences. Among his teachers were Radim Kettner, Maurice Lugeon and Émile Haug.

Life

In the period 1929-1938 he worked at the Charles University as a research assistant and lecturer. In 1938 he became head of the Geological Institute of the Slovak Technical University ( STU) of Košice as an associate professor. Shortly thereafter, he moved the institution as part of the University of relocation to Bratislava (1940 - 1949 Štátny geologický ústav; 1949 Slovenský ústredný ústav geologický; 1953-1995 Geologický ústav Dionýza Štúra ). Andrusov also co-founder and first director of the Geological Institute in 1953 created the Slovak Academy of Sciences and at the same time head of the Geological Commission of the Academy (later Geological Laboratory ) was.

Since 1940, now promoted to full professor, he stopped at the Faculty of Science, Comenius University in Bratislava lectures. From 1952 to 1970 he held the Chair of Geology and Paleontology at this university. From 1940 to 1945 Andrusov led the editors of the communications of the State Geological Institute ( Práce Št. Geologického ústavu ) and 1950-1964 the periodic signature Geologický Zborník Geologica Carpathica ( founded in 1949 as Geologický Zborník SAV).

The scientific achievements are diverse and filled with over 300 individual publications. At its central mission in life he had declared the exploration of the Carpathian system and took a prominent role among his fellow scientists in this field. From 1931 Andrusov worked based on modern findings reinforced at the stratigraphic and tectonic context of the Western Carpathians. In the course of this extensive work, he made a major contribution to the current geological understanding of the Carpathian system, especially of its upstream cliff zone.

His versatile language skills ( Russian, Slovak, Czech, German, French ) allowed wide contacts with scientists abroad. Andrusov entertained many foreign geoscientific institutions active contact, especially to Austria, and stayed until his death repeated in Vienna to report in lectures on the latest findings from his research.

Memberships and awards

Selected Works

  • A. Matejka / D. Andrusov: Aperçu de la geology of Carpathes occid. de la Slovaquie central et des reg. avoisinantes. Praha ( Knihovna Stat. Geol. Ústav, vol. 13) 1931
  • Dimitrij Andrusov: Étude de la geologique zone of the internal Klippes of Carpathes occidentales. Prague 1938
  • Dimitrij Andrusov: Geology Slovenska. Praha 1938
  • Dimitrij Andrusov: Geology and mineral resources of Slovakia. ( Slovak), Bratislava 1943
  • Dimitrij Andrusov: Étude de la géologique zone of the internal Klippes Carpathes Occidentales. Bratislava ( Geologické Práce Slovenske Academy vied & umetnosti, 34 ) 1953
  • Dimitrij Andrusov: GEOLOGIA československých Karpat I, II, III. Bratislava ( Slovenska Akademia vied ) 1958, 1959, 1964
  • Dimitrij Andrusov: Geology of the Czechoslovak Carpathians. 2 vols German edition, Bratislava ( Slovak ET d. Acad of Sciences. ), Berlin ( Akademie-Verlag ) 1964, 1965
  • Dimitrij Andrusov: Floor plan of the tectonics of the Northern Carpathians. Bratislava ( Publishing House of the Slovak Academy of Sciences) 1968
  • D. Andrusov / J. Bystrický / V. FUSAN: Outline of the Structure of the West Carpathians. In: Guide - book for geological excursion X. Congress CBGA. Bratislava ( GUD ) 1973
  • Dimitrij Andrusov: Stratigrafický Dictionary Západných Karpat 1 Bratislava 1983
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