Nikolai Ivanovich Raevsky ( 1835 - 1898 ) - Russian teacher , head of a number of educational institutions.
| Nikolai Ivanovich Raevsky | |
|---|---|
| Date of Birth | April 1 (13), 1835 |
| Date of death | November 8 (20), 1898 (63 years old) |
| Place of death | St. Petersburg |
| Citizenship |  Russian empire |
| Occupation | teacher |
Content
Biography
Born on April 1 ( 13 ), 1835 [1] . He was educated at the 5th St. Petersburg Gymnasium and at the Natural Department of the Physics and Mathematics Faculty of St. Petersburg University . He was a tutor of natural sciences in the 2nd Cadet Corps , then - a teacher at the 5th Gymnasium and at the Smolny Institute .
As a science teacher, he was one of the first in Russia to apply a new pedagogical methodology, in accordance with which he tried to teach his students to make their own observations on botany and zoology , arousing a serious interest in science in them: from his students in the 5th gymnasium they became professors of botany I P. Borodin , A.F. Batalin and Ya. H. Gobi .
Later, Raevsky served as an inspector at the Prince Oldenburgsky Orphanage School , inspector of the 5th gymnasium, director of a real school in Pskov (where Raevsky arranged a botanical garden ), director of the Forest Institute (in 1881 [2] ), director of the Orenburg Teachers Institute , and chief inspector of schools East Siberia , the director of the Moscow Teachers' Institute (1888-1890), the director of public schools in the St. Petersburg province and, finally, the director of the 2nd real school in St. Petersburg.
He was the author of a number of textbooks and teaching aids, published in periodicals.
He died on November 8 ( 20 ), 1898 . He was buried in the Smolensk Orthodox cemetery [1] .
He was the great-grandfather of the composer Sergei Albertovich Cortes [3] .
Works
- “The key to science” (translation from German)
- "The collection of plants and the compilation of herbarium" (St. Petersburg, 1874)
- "A preparatory course in botany" (10th ed., St. Petersburg, 1887)
- “Tables for the determination of families and genera of the Petersburg flora” (St. Petersburg, 1876)
- "A Brief Textbook of Geography" (2nd ed. St. Petersburg, 1885)
- "A Systematic Course in Botany" (5th ed. St. Petersburg, 1887)
- "Geography as a science and a subject" (St. Petersburg, 1887)
- “Physical geography” (T. 1, Moscow, 1889; T. 2, St. Petersburg, 1892)
- “On the construction and drawing of maps” (St. Petersburg, 1886)
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Petersburg necropolis
- ↑ St. Petersburg Forest Institute (1881-1903) . metodichka.x-pdf.ru. Date of treatment May 20, 2018.
- ↑ Sergey KORTES: “I am a theater man” . Literary Newspaper. Date of treatment May 20, 2018.
Literature
- Raevsky, Nikolai Ivanovich // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.