Gregory Ephimovich Shchurovsky (30 January 1804 – March 20, 1884) was a Russian Professor of geology in Moscow.
Life
Shchurovsky was born in
Moscow
Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...
in 1804. He ended up in an orphanage because his father was killed in 1812 and his mother, Maria Gerassimovna, could not afford to keep him.
[Gregory Ephimovich Shchurovsky (1803 - 1884)]
rembi.ru, Retrieved 16 November 2015 He took his surname to honour a benefactor. He attended university in Moscow where he studied a new course of geology.
In 1863 he led the
. Together with other leading members of the society discussed having a museum. Their first move in this direction was to establish a library. In 1871 Moscow council set aside half a million roubles to create a museum. A committee was formed with
Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich as honorary chair. The formation of a museum was timely as
Peter the Great
Peter I ( – ), most commonly known as Peter the Great,) or Pyotr Alekséyevich ( rus, Пётр Алексе́евич, p=ˈpʲɵtr ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪtɕ, , group=pron was a Russian monarch who ruled the Tsardom of Russia from t ...
's 200th anniversary would inspire an exhibition that would be used to launch the new
Polytechnic Museum
The Polytechnic Museum (russian: Политехнический музей) is one of the oldest science museums in the world and is located in Moscow. It showcases Russian and Soviet technology and science, as well as modern inventions. It was fo ...
.
[The Polytechnical Museum opened in Moscow]
Presidential Library, Retrieved 17 November 2015
He travelled extensively around the growing Russian empire writing about people and rocks.
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He died in 1884 and in the same year, August Yulevich Davidov became president of the Society of Devotees of Natural Science, Anthropology, and Ethnography.
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Memory
* In honor of G. E. Shchurovsky in 1871 Alexei Fedchenko named the glacier and the peak on the Pamir-Alai in Turkestan Range
One of the northern extensions of the Pamir-Alay system, the Turkestan Range (russian: Туркестанский хребет; ky, Түркстан кырка тоосу; uz, Туркистон тизмаси, Turkiston tizmasi; tg, Қатор ...
(in the Match
A match is a tool for starting a fire. Typically, matches are made of small wooden sticks or stiff paper. One end is coated with a material that can be ignited by friction generated by striking the match against a suitable surface. Wooden matc ...
es, ).
Fossil organisms:
* '' Parallelodon schourovskii'' - species of bivalve molluscs, Upper Jurassic of the European part of Russia.
* '' Stschurovskya'' - genus of cephalopods, Upper Jurassic of the southeast of the European part of Russia.
* '' Laugeites stchurovskii'' - a cephalopod species, Upper Jurassic of the European part of Russia.
In 1882, botanists Regel
Eduard August von Regel (sometimes Edward von Regel or Edward de Regel or Édouard von Regel), Russian: Эдуард Август Фон Регель; (born 13 August 1815 in Gotha; died 15 April 1892 in St. Petersburg) was a German horticultural ...
and Schmalh. published '' Schtschurowskia'', which is a genus of flowering plant
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words ('container, vessel') and ('seed'), and refers to those plants th ...
s from Central Asia belonging to the family Apiaceae
Apiaceae or Umbelliferae is a family of mostly aromatic flowering plants named after the type genus ''Apium'' and commonly known as the celery, carrot or parsley family, or simply as umbellifers. It is the 16th-largest family of flowering plants ...
and named in Gregory Shchurovsky's honour.
References
1804 births
1884 deaths
Scientists from Moscow
Russian geologists
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