Count Grigory Kirillovich

Razumovsky The House of Razumovsky or Rozumovsky (, Ukrainian: ''Розумовський'', German: ''Razumofsky'') is the name Imperial Russian noble family of Zaporozhian Cossack origin from Siveria. The main family line became extinct in the 19th cen ...

(russian: Григорий Кириллович Разумовский, uk, Григорій Кирилович Розумовський; November 10, 1759 – June 3, 1837) was a

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nobleman, political philosopher, botanist, zoologist and

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Career

Razumovsky is known from his writings in the West as Gregor or Grégoire, who lost his Russian citizenship for openly criticizing the czarist system under emperor

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, which he saw as pandering to the desires of a corrupt oligarchy of nobles. Gregor emigrated to western Europe, where was subsequently incorporated into the Bohemian nobility (Inkolat im Herrenstande) in 1811 and accorded the rank of count of the Austrian Empire. As a natural scientist, Gregor was the first to describe and classify ''Lissotrion helveticus''. He was the fifth son of the last

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Kirill Grigorievich Razumovsky Count Kirill Grigoryevich Razumovski, anglicized as Cyril Grigoryevich Razumovski (russian: Кирилл Григорьевич Разумовский, uk, Кирило Григорович Розумовський ''Kyrylo Hryhorovych Rozumovs ...

and brother of prince

Andreas Razumovsky Count (later Prince) Andrey Kirillovich Razumovskyrussian: Андре́й Кири́ллович Разумо́вский, , german: Andreas von Rasumofsky (2 November 1752 – 23 September 1836) was a Russian Imperial diplomat who spent man ...

, he is also the ancestor of all living members of the family as such, the Russian lines having gone extinct. In the field of geology, Razumovsky has been described as a "non-actualistic

catastrophist In geology, catastrophism theorises that the Earth has largely been shaped by sudden, short-lived, violent events, possibly worldwide in scope. This contrasts with uniformitarianism (sometimes called gradualism), according to which slow incrementa ...

". He was also an advocate of

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.Hooykaas, R. (1970)
''Catastrophism in Geology, its scientific character in relation to actualism and uniformitarianism''
Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Loefenschappen, afd. Letterkunde, Med. (n.r.), 33 (7): 271-316. In 1788, he was elected a foreign member of the

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Publications

* Observations Minéralogiques sur les environs de Vienne (1822). * «Essai d’un système de transition de la nature dans le règne minéral. Lausanne» * «Oeuvres de M. le comte Grégoire de Razoumowsky». Lausanne, chez Maures Cadet. 1784. 2 vol. * "Histoire naturelle de Jorat et de ses environs et celle des trois lacs de Neufchatel, Morat et Brienne, précédée d’un essai sur le climat, les productions, le commerce, les animaux de la partie du pays de Vaud ou de la Suisse Romanne, qui entre dans le plan de cet ouvrage, par le comte de Razoumowsky (Lausanne, chez Jean Maures. 1789. 2 vol). * Von der Ukrainischen Stutereien. Lernbegriff von den Krankheiten der Pferde und deren Heilung von I. C. Zeihers. Berlin. 8

Memberships

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* Jena Mineralogical Society * Imperial Moscow Society of Naturalists * Zurich Physical Society * Basel Medical Physics Society *

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References

1759 births 1837 deaths Catastrophism Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Scientists from Saint Petersburg

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