Gregor von Helmersen

Gregory of Helmersen ( also Russian Григорий Петрович Гельмерсен, Grigory Petrovic Gel'mersen; . * 29 Septemberjul / October 11 1803greg on Good Dückershof at Kamby, County Tartu, Estonia; . † 3 Februarjul / February 15 1885greg in. . Saint Petersburg ) was a Baltic German geologist and explorer.

Life

Helmersen was a member of the noble family of Helmersen and grew up on his father's estate Dückershof. In 1826 he undertook a geological expedition in the Urals and researched 1828/29 the South Urals. From 1831 to 1832 he studied in Bonn palaeontology before 1836 to the Urals, the Kirghiz steppe and the Altai traveled by 1833. 1838-63 he was a professor of geology at the Mountain Institute in St. Petersburg, which he converted as a director to a free academic educational institution from 1865 to 1872.

In exploring further areas of Russia to be the main focus was on the detection and the development of fossil fuels; next he was looking for diluvial peat deposits and amber formations. He drew up in 1841 the first general map of the mountain formations of European Russia and thus created the first geological map of this region.

In 1829 he accompanied Alexander von Humboldt on the journey through Russia and Siberia.

Between two expeditions to the Urals, he traveled in the spring of 1834 Omsk and Barnaul to the Altai. This travel owes you the first scientific description along with the recording of Chulyshman lake. He sailed the lake lengthwise, undertook altitude and temperature measurements, designed an accurate picture of the mountain forest shore and gave the first accurate descriptions of local residents.

In 1839 he founded, together with Karl Ernst von Baer, the first scientific books series of Russia, "Contributions to the knowledge of the Russian Empire" (Petersburg from 1839 to 1900, a total of 45 volumes / parts ) in which many of his publications appeared.

He was a member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg and founded in 1882 the "Russian Geological Committee ", whose first president he was.

Works

  • Trip to the Urals and the Kirghiz steppe, in the years 1833 and 1835. First Section. St. Petersburg, K. Academic of Sciences, 1841. Lith With 3. Folding by G. Helm Bergersen (Report of a geological expedition in the Urals, appeared as the fifth tapes of the series: KE Baer, ​​G. v. Helm Bergersen (ed. ): Contributions to the knowledge of the Russian Empire and neighboring lands of Asia)
  • Trip to the Altai, executed in 1834. St. Petersburg, printing office of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1848 ( Contributions to the knowledge of the Russian Empire ... Fourteenth ribbon )
  • Overview map of the mountain formations of European Russia (St. Petersburg, 1841, 3rd edition 1873)
  • The Donezer coal mountains and its industrial future (1863 )
  • Studies on the traveling blocks and the Diluvialgebilde of Russia ( 1882)
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