Aleksander Czekanowski
Aleksander P. Czekanowski | |
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Born | |
Died | 30 October 1876 (aged 43) |
Nationality | Polish |
Known for | Siberian exploration |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Geography, geology |
Aleksander Piotr Czekanowski, or Aleksandr Lavrentyevich Chekanovsky (
during his exile after participating in the January Uprising. He took part in and later led several expeditions, surveying and mapping the geology of Eastern Siberia. He was released from exile in 1875, and in 1876 took up the post of custodian in the Mineralogical Museum of the Academy of Sciences.Biography
Aleksander Czekanowski was born on 12 February 1833 in Krzemieniec, Volhynia. His father Wawrzyniec ran a boarding house and was an honorary assistant in a zoological office at a high school. Shortly after the birth of Alexander, his family moved to
After graduating in 1857 he returned to Kiev where he started working at
Shortly before the
At this time, the academician
Expeditions to Siberia (1869–1872)
From 1869 to 1875 he made several expeditions to
Research between the Yenisei River and the Lena River (1872–1875)
In 1872, Czekanowski proposed to the Geographical Society to explore the area between
The first expedition began in
A new second expedition was hastily prepared, which was to cross the Arctic Circle and conduct research to the still unknown river
Study of the Lena River (1875)
Organising his third Siberian expedition, A. L. Czekanowski intended to "go along the banks of the Lena to the mouth and, if possible, then go to the mouth of the Olenyok from the sea." He hoped to have time to conduct geological exploration of the banks of the Lena River before the onset of winter, but a short summer frustrated his plans. From a barge Czekanowski conducted an investigation of the banks of the Lena from
Thus ended the three expeditions of A. L. Czekanowski, the zoological results of which were recognized as “the richest of all that have ever been undertaken in Siberia. The reports of the expedition, rich in content, being translated into different languages, became the property of science, and the maps compiled by him significantly changed and supplemented the map of Asian
Final Years (1875–1876)
Upon his return from his last expedition, he received notice that he was
Awards and honours
In 1870 he received a gold medal from the Russian Geographical Society. He also received a medal in 1875 from the International Geographical Congress in Paris for his mapping of Eastern Siberia.
His name was given to the mountain range in Siberia between the Lena and Olenyok rivers –
Several extinct taxa named Czekanowski include:[3]
- Agnostus Czekanowskii Schmidt, 1886 – Middle Cambrian trilobite, Northern Siberia.
- Triangulaspis Czekanowskii (Toll, 1899) – Lower Cambrian trilobite, Eastern Siberia.
- Angarocanis Czekanowskii (Schmidt, 1886) – Silurian Eurypterid, Siberia.
- Primitia Czekanowskii Schmidt, 1886 – Silurian Ostracod, Siberia.
- Modiola Czekanowskii Lahusen, 1886 – Middle Jurassic Mussels, Siberia.
- Oxytoma Czekanowskii Teller, 1886 – Late Triassic clam, northern Russia.
- Bellerophon Czekanowskii Schmidt, 1858 – Early Norovice snail, southern coast Gulf of Finland.
- Epiczekanowskites Popov, 1961 – Middle Triassic ammonite, Russia.
- Polyptychites tshekanovskii Pavlow, 1914 – Early Cretaceous Ammonite, Eastern Siberia.
- Palaeniscinotus Czekanowskii Rohon, 1890 – Early Cretaceous fish, Siberia.
- Sorocaulus szekanowskii (Schmalhausen, 1879) – Permian Equisetum (horsetail), Siberia.
- Asplenium Czekanowskii Schmalhausen, 1879 – Permian Pteridophyte (inc. ferns and lycophytes), Siberia
His name is also borne by several contemporary plants and animals:
- Aconitum Czekanovskyi
- Oxytropis Czekanowskii [6]
- Saxifraga Czekanowskii [7]
- Myosotis Czekanowskii
- Papaver Czekanowskii
- A hybrid larch Larix Czekanowskii
- A fish Phoxinus Czekanowskii [8] (synonym for Rhynchocypris Czekanowskii[9]) (Czekanowski's minnow)
- Dendryphantes Czekanowskii (a spider)
- Hyperborea Czekanowskii
- Tropodiaptomus Czekanowskii[10] (a crustacean)
- Scoliocentra czekanowskii
References
- ISBN 978-1786202697.
- ISBN 0-521-47771-9.
- ^ a b Крымгольц Г.Я., Крымгольц Н.Г., 2000: Имена отечесте палеонтологических названиях. Санкт-Петербург, Российская Академия Наук, Палеонтологическое общество при РАН, pp. 123–124.
- ^ Paleobiology Database
- ^ Paleobiology Database
- ^ Oxytropis Czekanowskii – ILDIS LegumeWeb
- ^ "Explore SaxBase: Saxifraga Czekanowskii". www.saxifraga.org. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2017-11-21.
- ^ ITIS Database
- ^ "Rhynchocypris Czekanowskii (Chekanovskii's Minnow, Chekanovski's Minnow, Czekanowski's Minnow )". iucnredlist.org. Retrieved 2017-11-21.
- ^ "The World of Copepods – Tropodiaptomus Czekanowskii (Grochmalicki, 1913)". marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2017-11-21.
Further reading
- Stanislaw, Czarniecki (1970–1980). "Czekanowski, Aleksander Piotr". ISBN 978-0-684-10114-9.
- Wójcik Z. Aleksander Czekanowski: sketches about people, science and adventure in Siberia. – Lublin: Wydawnictwo Lubelskie, 1982.
- Александр Лаврентьевич Чекановский.
- Чекановский Александр Лаврентьевич.
- Магидович, И. П. и В. И. Магидович, Очерки по истории географических открытий, 3-то изд. в 5 тома, М., 1982 – 86.
- Т. 4 Географические открытия и исследования нового времени (ХІХ – начало ХХ в.), М., 1985, стр. 101 – 104.
- Regulski Aleksander: Aleksander Czekanowski. 1877.
- Bolchaïa Sovietskaïa Encyklopedia vol. 29, Moscow 1978.
- Chekanovsky, Alexander Lavrentievich – article from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia .
- Chekanovsky Alexander Lavrentievich – biography on the site hrono.ru .
- Smolyannikov S.A. In the wake of the secrets of the three captains (inaccessible link) . – The name of Alexander Chekanovsky on the map of the Far North. Date of treatment February 14, 2012. Archived May 19, 2012.
- Plahotnik A. “On the importance of the data obtained” // Around the World. – 1983. – No. 9 .
- Bibliography of A. L. Chekanovsky in the Information System “History of Geology and Mining”, GIN RAS .
- Czekanowsky, Aleksander in the Nordic Family Book (second edition, 1906)