Eduard Yulievich Petri ( July 1, 1854 - September 28, 1899 , St. Petersburg ) - Russian geographer , ethnographer , anthropologist .
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| Date of Birth | July 1, 1854 |
| Place of Birth | Zegevold , Livonia province , Russian Empire (now Sigulda , Latvia ) |
| Date of death | September 28, 1899 (aged 45) |
| A place of death | Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire |
| A country |  Russian empire |
| Scientific field | geography , ethnography , anthropology |
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| Alma mater | Imperial Medical and Surgical Academy University of Bern |
| Known as | author of the Educational Geographical Atlas, ed. Of Marx |
Biography and career
Rod E. Yu. Petri was descended from the leader of the Swedish reformation of the 16th century, Olaus Petri , whose descendants fled to Livonia, later annexed to Russia.
E. Yu. Petri studied at the Imperial Medical and Surgical Academy . At one time, he was close to the underground organization " Earth and Freedom ", as a result of which he was arrested and exiled. Having fled from exile, he settled in Bern ( Switzerland ), where he graduated from the University of Bern , where he later defended his doctoral dissertation in medicine (1880), and from 1883 to 1887 he worked as a freelance professor at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Bern, where he lectured in geography and anthropology.
Wife, Evgenia Lvovna Petri (nee Grinberg), in order to marry E. Yu. Petri, adopted Lutheranism. The family had two sons - the elder Bernhard and the younger George, both pupils of the May gymnasium .
In 1887, the Petri family returned to Russia, where E. Yu. Petri was amnestied. He received the rank of state adviser and personal nobility, became vice-chairman of the Russian Anthropological Society. In 1887-1899 he headed the Department of Geography and Ethnography at the Natural Department of the Physics and Mathematics Faculty of St. Petersburg University (he was invited to this position by the Minister of Education). He also taught at the Smolny Institute .
E. Yu. Petri was the first in Russian scientific literature to use the term “ biosphere ”, previously introduced into scientific circulation by the Austrian geologist E. Suess in the book “The Face of the Earth” (1875). He organized a circle of geography teachers at the Military Pedagogical Museum, which aimed to interest young people in this “dry” subject by changing the teaching system itself. He conducted archaeological and anthropological and geographical expeditions in Central Asia, the Turgai region, the Urals, the Orenburg and Ufa provinces, and was widely published. Every year he gave public lectures in the Salt City .
He was buried in St. Petersburg at the Smolensk Lutheran cemetery [1] .
Major works
- Educational Geographical Atlas, published by A.F. Marx (1898, later reprinted many times)
- "Fundamentals of Anthropology" (St. Petersburg, 1890)
- "Somatic anthropology" (St. Petersburg, 1895-1897)
- "Methods and principles of geography" (St. Petersburg, 1892)
- "A critical review of foreign benefits in the teaching and study of geography" (St. Petersburg, 1897)
- "The Great Worldwide Marx Desktop Atlas." Edited by E. Yu. Petri and Yu. M. Shokalsky. St. Petersburg: Marks Marx, 1905 (published posthumously)
He also collaborated in the Real Encyclopedia of Medical Sciences, translated Peschel’s Ethnography into Russian, Yadrintsev’s book Siberia as a Colony, and Yavorsky’s journey (Reise nach Afghanistan, Iena, 1884) into the German language, compiled the Russland department in the Deutsche Encyclopadie (1886–87)
Notes
- ↑ Grave on the plan of the cemetery (No. 16) // Division IV // All Petersburg for 1914, address and reference book of St. Petersburg / Ed. A.P. Shashkovsky. - SPb. : Partnership of A. S. Suvorin - “New Time”, 1914. - ISBN 5-94030-052-9 .
Literature
- Sirina A. A. Forgotten Pages of Siberian Ethnography: B. E. Petri // Repressed Ethnographers / Ed. D. D. Tumarkin. M: Publishing House "Oriental Literature" RAS, 2002, p. 58-59
- E. Yu. Petri. Obituary, "Geography." 1899, 1900, Prince four