Ivan Mikhailovich Komov ( 1750 - 1790 ) - Russian agronomist , professor.
| Komov Ivan Mikhailovich | |
|---|---|
| Date of Birth | 1750 |
| Place of Birth | Russian empire |
| Date of death | 1790 |
| Place of death | Russian empire |
| Allegiance |  Russian empire |
| Occupation | |
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Biography
Born in 1750 in the family of a priest.
After completion in 1768, the Slavic-Greek-Latin Academy was sent to the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences and for seven years participated in the expedition of academician S. G. Gmelin to the south-eastern regions of Russia and the Caucasus. After the death of Gmelin led the expeditionary force. On his return in July 1775, he filed a request for dismissal from the Academy.
During the year, until June 1776, he taught history, geography and rhetoric in the Engineering gentry cadet corps .
He was sent to England to study agriculture; for eight years, he attended lectures by A. Jung . Then he was a professor of agriculture and other sciences and an assistant to the Moscow director of economics . In 1785, by the decree of Catherine II in the rank of titular adviser I. M. Komov was appointed assistant director of the Moscow Treasury .
He lived in Moscow on Malaya Krutitskaya Singing Street at the Yauza gates. He died in 1790 , according to other sources - in 1792 . He was buried in the cemetery of the Novospassky monastery.
Proceedings
Written by:
- “On Agricultural Tools” (1785; 2nd ed. 1791 ; 3rd ed. 1879 );
- “On Agriculture” (2 editions: 1788, 1789).
Literature
- Volkov V. А., Kulikova M. V. Moscow professors of the XVIII - beginning of the XX centuries. Natural and technical sciences. - M .: Janus-K; Moscow textbooks and kartolithografiya, 2003. - p. 125. - 296 p. - 2 000 copies - ISBN 5–8037–0164–5.
- Krupennikov, I. A. The history of soil science from its inception to the present day. - M .: Science, 1981. - 327 p. - pp. 108-109).
Links
- Komov Ivan Mikhailovich on the site "Chronos"