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Gregor von Helmersen or Grigory Petrovich Helmersen (russian: Григорий Петрович Гельмерсен, – ) was a
Helmersen was born in Duckershof, Livonia (now in Estonia) and went to boarding school in
Kammeri Manor
birthplace of Gregor von Helmersen at Estonian Manors Portal {{DEFAULTSORT:Helmersen, Gregor von 1803 births 1885 deaths People from Kambja Parish People from Kreis Dorpat Baltic-German people 19th-century geologists Estonian explorers Estonian geologists German explorers 19th-century German geologists Cartographers from the Russian Empire Saint Petersburg Mining University alumni Founding members of the Russian Geographical Society Full members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences Demidov Prize laureates Burials at Raadi cemetery
Baltic German
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geologist
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Biography
Helmersen was born in Duckershof, Livonia (now in Estonia) and went to boarding school in St. Petersburg
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
. He graduated from the University of Dorpat
The University of Tartu (UT; et, Tartu Ülikool; la, Universitas Tartuensis) is a university in the city of Tartu in Estonia. It is the national university of Estonia. It is the only classical university in the country, and also its biggest ...
in 1825 and joined the finance ministry. He accompanied Alexander von Humboldt
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (14 September 17696 May 1859) was a German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy and science. He was the younger brother of the Prussian minister, ...
into the Orenburg region and was recommended, along with E.K. Hoffman, by the minister E.F. Kankrin to be sent for higher education. The two travelled and listened to lectures in the universities of Berlin, Heidelberg, and Bonn. In 1835 he was put in the Corps of Mining Engineers and in 1838 he became professor of geology in the Mining Institute at Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
of which he was also director.
In 1839, along with Karl Ernst von Baer
Karl Ernst Ritter von Baer Edler von Huthorn ( – ) was a Baltic German scientist and explorer. Baer was a naturalist, biologist, geologist, meteorologist, geographer, and is considered a, or the, founding father of embryology. He was ...
, he founded the first serial natural scientific publication in Russia known as '' Beiträge zur Kenntniss des Russischen Reiches.''
In 1850, he became an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences
The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across ...
in St Petersburg.
He founded and became the first head of the Russian Geological Committee in 1882.
He was an author of numerous memoirs on the geology of Russia, especially on coal and other mineral deposits of the country; and he wrote also some explanations to accompany separate sheets of the geological map of Russia.
His geological work was continued to an advanced age, one of the later publications being ''Studien über die Wanderblöcke und die Diluvialgebilde Russlands'' (1869 and 1882). Most of his memoirs were published by the Imperial Academy of Sciences at Saint Petersburg.
See also
* List of Baltic German scientistsReferences
*External links
Kammeri Manor
birthplace of Gregor von Helmersen at Estonian Manors Portal {{DEFAULTSORT:Helmersen, Gregor von 1803 births 1885 deaths People from Kambja Parish People from Kreis Dorpat Baltic-German people 19th-century geologists Estonian explorers Estonian geologists German explorers 19th-century German geologists Cartographers from the Russian Empire Saint Petersburg Mining University alumni Founding members of the Russian Geographical Society Full members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences Demidov Prize laureates Burials at Raadi cemetery