Karol Bohdanowicz
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Professor Karol Bohdanowicz | |
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Born | 17 (29) December 1864 |
Died | 5 June 1947 | (aged 82)
Citizenship | Russian Empire, Second Polish Republic |
Alma mater | Saint Petersburg Mining University |
Awards | Konstantinovsky medal |
Scientific career | |
Fields | geology engineer , geographer , geologist , mining engineer |
Institutions | Saint Petersburg Mining University
Kraków Mining Academy
State Geological Institute (Warsaw) |
Academic advisors | Ivan Vasilevich Mushketov |
Notes | |
Member of the Polish Scientific Society in Lwów |
Karol Bohdanowicz (born 29 November 1864 in
Early life (1864–1886)
The son of Jan Paweł Bohdanowicz, a judge, and Zofia Bohdanowicz nee Kononowicz, Karol Bohdanowicz was born in the county town of Lucyn in the Russian Partition of Poland, then administratively part of the Vitebsk Governorate (formerly part of Polish Livonia, now Ludza, Latvia), into a Polish noble Roman Catholic family. He graduated from the military gymnasium in Nizhny Novgorod in 1881,[citation needed] before going onto study at the Saint-Petersburg State Mining Institute in Saint Petersburg, graduating in June 1886 with the title of mining engineer.[1] During his studies, in 1885, he took part as a collector in a geological expedition to the Ural Mountains organised by the notable Russian geologist, T. Czernyszew.
Expeditionary and research career (1886–1901)
Studies in Turkmenistan and Iran (1886–1888)
After graduation, he worked as a geologist in the construction of the Zakaspian and
Expedition to Central Asia (1889–1891)
Between 1889 and 1890, he took part as a geologist in the expedition of the Russian Geological Society under the leadership of Colonel M. Piewcow to
Research in Southern Siberia (1892–1895)
In 1892 he was delegated for three years to a mining expedition preparing the construction of the
Expedition to the Far East and Kamchatka (1895–1898)
In 1895, on behalf of the Ministry of Agriculture and State Property, Bogdanovic led an expedition to study the geological structure of the
In 1895, in recognition of his merits in the field of geographical discoveries, he was appointed an honorary member of the Dutch Geographical Society, in 1900 he received a gold medal at the Universal Exhibition in Paris for topographic and geological maps of the shores of the Sea of Okhotsk, and in 1902 he received the Gold Medal Konstantinowski from the Russian Geographical Society.
Expedition to Chukotka (1900) and research in the Caucasus (1901)
In 1900, again as a geologist, he took part in the expedition of the retired Guards Colonel Vladimir Mikhailovich Vonlyarlyarsky to Chukotka to search for gold deposits and by order of the Committee of Geology in 1901 he conducted geological research in East Caucasus and twice crossed the Main Ridge.
In June 1901 he was accepted to the position of geologist at the Geological Committee in St. Petersburg, the main geological office of the country, and from January 1903, after taking 'habilitation', additionally as an associate professor at the Department of Geology at the Mining Institute, also lecturing geology at the Institute of Communication Engineers. In October 1907 he was promoted to the position of senior geologist in the Geology Committee.
In August 1908 he went for one month to Caucasus, for the study of mineral waters (source 'Narzan'). In February 1909 he stayed a month in Italy, studying the problems caused by earthquakes. From June 1909, he studied the kuban oil region for four months. He spent the next four months there in the summer 1910. In the same year he was involved in oil exploration in Austria and Romania.
In May 1911 he was appointed a full professor at the Department of Geology at the St Petersberg Mining Institute, while still working as a senior geologist at the Geological Committee. He supported Polish scientists and students, including Józef Łukaszewicz. Bohdanowicz's students included Dmitri Iwanowitsch Muschketow, Alexander Nikolajewitsch Sawarizki, Iwan Michailowitsch Gubkin and Dmitri Wassiljewitsch Naliwkin.
For four months during the summer of 1911, he explored areas affected by the
Due to his interests, he went on short-term trips to the island of Java and to California to learn about modern equipment and methods of oil extraction. Later, based on his mining experience from the Caucasus, he worked as an expert in exploring oil deposits in many countries of the world.
On 12 January 1913 he was appointed deputy director of the Geological Committee, and on 24 February 1914, after the death of T. Czernyszew, he became the director of this institution (the nomination was signed by
Life in Poland (1919–)
Bohdanowicz came back to the Russian Partition of Poland for the first time in 1905 as a manager of a geological works in the Dąbrowa Basin. His purpose was to be an expert opinion on the occurrence of hard coal and metal ores in the area dolomitic limestone units. In 1917 he made contact with Polish Economic Council in Saint Petersburg. In October 1917 he presented his dissertation Mineral deposits of Polish lands.[3] His other works related to Poland also appeared at that time.
After
At the same time, in July 1921, the Chief of State appointed Bohdanowicz a full professor of applied geology and from autumn this year Bohdanowicz lectured in the Department of Applied Geology at the University of Mining and Metallurgy (now
He was the (first) chairman of the Polish Geological Society and the Polish Geographical Society. He was vice president of Societé Géologique de France, an ordinary member Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, Academy of Technical Sciences, and the Warsaw Scientific Society .
On 14 April 1938 he was appointed the director of the Polish Geological Institute and remained until his death on 5 June 1947. He married Helena Bohdanowicz.
He is buried at Old Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw (Aleja Zasłużłużego, row 1, m. 28).[4]
Decorations
- Commander's Cross with the Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta (29 January 1946),[5]
- Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (19 March 1936).[6][7]
Awards
- 1900 - Gold Medal of the Universal Exhibition in Paris for maps of his authorship,
- 1901 - Konstantinovsky Medal from Imperial Russian Geographical Society[8]
- 1902 - great medal Przewalski Russian Geographical Society and Konstantinowski gold medal,
- 1905 - Helmersen prize of the Russian Academy of Sciences for geological works.[9]
Essays and papers
Author and editor of more than 270 scientific papers,[10] among them:
- „To the geology of Central Asia. Description of some sedimentary formations of the Transcaspian region and part of northern Persia "" ("Zap. Min. Obshch.", Vol. XXVI, 1889);
- 'Geological research in East Turkestan "' '(" Proceedings of the Tibetan Expedition 1889 - 90 under the leadership of MV Pevtsov ", Part II, 1892);
- „From a trip to the central. Asia ” (Gorn. Zhurn., 1892, № 4 - 5, pp. 84 – 157);
- 'North-West Tibet, Quen-Lun and Kashgaria' '(Izv. Geogr. Society., Vol. XXVII, 1892, pp. 480 – 504);
- „Geological research along the Siberian Railway. d. in 1893 ” (Gorn. Zhurn., 1894, № 9 and 10);
- 'Materials on the geology and minerals of the Irkutsk province.' (Gorn. Zhurn., 1895, № 10, 11, 12);
- „Geological research and exploration works along the Siberian Railway. d. “ (issue 2, 1896, pp. 1 - 294);
- "Essay on the activities of the Okhotsk-Kamchatka mountain expedition 1895 - 98" "(Izv. Geogr. Obshch.", XXXV, 1899, issue, VI);
- 'Geological description of the Kwantung region and its gold deposits (Materials on the Geology of Russia, vol. XX, 1900, pp. 1 - 237);
- 'Two intersections of the Main Caucasian ridge' '("Proceedings of the Geological Committee", vol. XIX, 1902, pp. 1 – 209).
References
- ^ Биография на Бохданович на сайта geoportal.pgi.gov.pl (посетен на 05.04.2015 г.)
- ^ Description of the walking route on the site of Kompastour Asia
- ^ Karol Bohdanowicz, "Mineral deposits of Polish lands, ed. 1918", polona.pl, retrieved 2019-03-21
- ^ Cmentarz Stare Powązki: KAROL BOHDANOWICZ (in Polish)
- ^ M.P. z 1946 r. Nr 28 , poz. 53 "in recognition of merits in the field of scientific work".
- ^ "Decorations with the Order of "Rebirth of Poland"". Gazeta Lwowska. No. 66. 20 March 1936. p. 2.
- ^ M.P. z 1936 r. Nr 66 , poz. 130 "for merits in the field of scientific work".
- ^ Перечень награждённых знаками отличия Русского географического общества (1845—2012)
- ^ "Karol Bohdanowicz", Geological Museum, retrieved 2020-02-15
- ^ Биография К. И. Богдановича в информационной системе «История геологии и горного дела» РАН.
Further reading
- Maślankiewicz Kazimierz: Memoirs of Professor Karol Bohdanowicz (29 November 1864 - 5 June 1947) , Przegląd Geologiczny rok 12 (1964), No. 12, pp. 469-473, Warsaw;
- Mileska Maria Irena: On the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Karol Bohdanowicz (29.XI.1864 - 5.VI.1947) , "Discover the World" R. XI, No. 11/1964 ( 144), pp. 30-31;
- Stefan Czarnocki, Karol Bohdanowicz (print from the 12th Vintage of the Polish Geological Society), Krakow 1936.
- Wójcik Zbigniew: Karol Bohdanowicz. Sketch of the portrait of an Asian researcher , Polish Society of Ludoznacyjne, Oficyna Publ. "The Library of the Exile" Warsaw-Wrocław 1997;
- Azatyan, AA et al., History of the discovery and study of Soviet Asia , M. 1969.
- Baransky, NN, Domestic physical geographers and travelers , M. 1960.
- Biographical encyclopedia.
- Bolshev Soviet Encyclopedia vol. 3 Moscow 1970.
- Esakov, VA, Geography in Russia in the XIX and early XX centuries (Discoveries and studies of the earth's surface and the development of physical geography) , M., 1978.
- Magidovich, IP and VI Magidovich, Essays on the history of geographical discoveries , 3rd ed. in 5 volumes, M., 1982 - 86. T. 4 Geographical discoveries and researches of modern time (XIX - the beginning of the XX century), M., 1985, pp. 124 - 125, 162 - 165, 181 - 182.
- Róziewicz Jerzy, Wójcik Zbigniew: New materials for the biography of Karol Bohdanowicz , Przegląd Geologiczny, 35 (1987), No. 8-9, pp. 443-446, Warsaw;
- Shchukina, NM, How the Center map was created. Asia. Works of Russian researchers of the XIX and the beginning of the XX century , M., 1955.
- website www.pgi.gov.pl
- Big Encyclopedia, Volume 3, Petersburg 1901, side 366
- Biograficzeskaja encykłopedia.
- Biography of K. I. Bogdanovich in the information system “History of Geology and Mining” RAS.
- Biography, documents and bibliography in the information system " History of Geology and Mining " RAS.
- Bogdanovich Karl Ivanovich // List of civil ranks of the fourth class. Corrected on March 1, 1916. Part one. - Petrograd: Publication of the Inspection Department of His Imperial Majesty’s Chancellery . Senate Printing House, 1916. - S. 1439-1440.
- Bogdanovich Karl Ivanovich //Great Soviet Encyclopedia: [in 30 vol.]/ Ed. A. M. Prokhorova - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia , 1969.
- Bogdanovich, Karl Ivanovich // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- Bogdanovich, Karl Ivanovich // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- Bolszaja Sowietskaja Encykłopedia t. 3 Moskwa 1970.
- Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences of the 18th – 21st centuries: Geology and mining. / Ans. Editor I. G. Malakhova. M.: GC RAS , 2012 .-- 504 p. ISBN 978-5-904509-08-8(electronic version).
- List of awarded the insignia of the Russian Geographical Society (1845-2012)
- Maślankiewicz Kazimierz: Wspomnienia o profesorze Karolu Bohdanowiczu . In: Przegląd Geologiczny . tape 12 , no. 12 , 1964, p. 469-473 .
- Maślankiewicz Kazimierz: Wspomnienia o profesorze Karolu Bohdanowiczu (29 XI 1864 - 5 VI 1947), Przegląd Geologiczny rok 12 (1964), nr 12, s. 469-473, Warszawa;
- Mileska Maria Irena: W setną rocznicę urodzin Karola Bohdanowicza (29.XI.1864 - 5.VI.1947), "Poznaj Świat" R. XI, nr 11/1964 (144), s. 30-31;
- Odznaczenia Orderem "Odrodzenia Polski" . In: Gazeta Lwowska . No. 66 , 20 March 1936 ( [3] accessed on February 6, 2018).
- Róziewicz Jerzy, Wójcik Zbigniew: Nowe materiały do biografii Karola Bohdanowicza, Przegląd Geologiczny, rok 35 (1987), nr 8-9, s. 443-446, Warszawa;
- Ryazanov I.A. In the mountains and deserts of Asia. Travel K.I. Bogdanovich. M., “Thought”, 1976. (series “ Wonderful geographers and travelers ”, p. 78 with ill. And maps).
- Shelokhaev V. Bogdanovich Karl Ivanovich // Encyclopedia of Russian Emigration, 1997.
- Stefan Czarnocki, Karol Bohdanowicz (odbitka z XII Rocznika Polskiego Towarzystwa Geologicznego), Kraków 1936.
- Wójcik Zbigniew: Karol Bohdanowicz. Szkic portretu badacza Azji, Polskie Tow. Ludoznawcze, Oficyna Wyd. "Biblioteka Zesłańca" Warszawa-Wrocław 1997;
- Zavaritsky A. N. [et al.] , On the scientific and organizational activity of K. I. Bogdanovich, in the book: Essays on the history of geological knowledge, c. 5, M., 1956.
- Богданович (Карл Иванович) . In: Brockhaus-Efron . доп. т. I, 1905, p. 278-279 ( [1] accessed on February 6, 2018).
- Перечень награждённых знаками отличия Русского географического общества (1845–2012) . Исполнительная дирекция, Moscow 2012 (accessed on February 6, 2018 [PDF]).