Mikhail Grigoryevich Pavlov (
Russian Михаил Григорьевич Павлов) ( – ) was a Russian academic, largely responsible for spreading the philosophical ideas of the ''
Naturphilosophie
''Naturphilosophie'' (German for "nature-philosophy") is a term used in English-language philosophy to identify a current in the philosophical tradition of German idealism, as applied to the study of nature in the earlier 19th century. German sp ...
'' of
Schelling in Russia. He was a professor at
Moscow University
M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...
.
He graduated from Moscow University in 1815. After a doctorate in medicine, and two years travelling in Europe to study science, he was given a chair in Moscow in 1821, in Agriculture, Mineralogy and Forestry. Subsequently he wrote textbooks in agriculture and chemistry, and lobbied for changed agricultural practices.
Schelling appears as a kind of absentee grand master of a new higher order. The most popular university lecturer of the period, Professor Pavlov, was master of ceremonies, greeting students at the door of his lecture hall with his famous question: "You want to know about nature, but what is nature and what is knowledge?"[Billington, James H., ''The Icon and the Axe'' (New York: Vintage Books), p. 312.]
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Brockhaus and Efron biography(in Russian)
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1792 births
1840 deaths
19th-century scientists from the Russian Empire