Herman Adolfovich Trautschold
Gustav Heinrich Ludwig [Герман Адольфович Траутшольд] (17 September 1817 – October 22, 1902) was a German geologist and paleontologist. From 1869-1888 he was a professor at the Petrovsky Agricultural and Forestry Academy. Trautschold was known as a specialist in the paleontology and stratigraphy of Carboniferous, Jurassic and Cretaceous deposits of the European part of Russia.
Life
Herman Gustav Heinrich Ludwig Trauttschold was born on September 17, 1817 in Berlin, in the family of the Berlin merchant Adolf Christoph Ludwig Trautschold and Maria Charlotte Wilhelmine Trautschold, a German born Müller. He graduated from primary school in Spandau and a grammar school in Berlin. In 1844, Trautzhold made a trip to Spain, during which he studied botanical research, and then moved to the University of Gisen, where he studied chemistry, mineralogy and crystallography in depth; He showed special interest in geology and paleontology. During his studies in Gisen, Trautzschold worked for about one and a half years as an assistant in the laboratory of Justus von Liebig. In 1847, after completing his studies, he obtained a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Gisen.
Career
In 1847-1849 Trautschold traveled to Italy, Germany and Russia, where he was engaged in geological research. During his stay in Russia, he settled for a time as a home teacher in the family of the landowner of Kostroma province, FN Luginin, who lived in Moscow at that time, whom he had met in Germany (one of Trautzsold's students, Vladimir, later became a major physicist, professor at Moscow University ); In Russia, Herman Trauttschold was known as Herman Adolfovich. In 1848 GA Trautshold returned to Germany, where in 1849-1857 he headed a private educational institution.
In 1863 he was invited to teach German at the Physics and Mathematics and Medical Faculties of Moscow University. In the course of classes with students and work on translation of natural scientific works, Trautschold mastered the Russian language perfectly; But to do his favorite thing - geological research - he still could only in his spare time from the main job.
During his work at the Petrovsky Academy, Trautzschold devoted much time to researching the deposits of the Carboniferous and Jurassic periods of the Moscow province, and also repeatedly undertook long-term trips with the purpose of geological survey of the Volga, Ural, Donbass, Crimea and Northern Caucasus regions. Pedagogical work of Trautzshold was not limited only to conducting classes and lecturing; He arranged geological excursions for students, took care of replenishing the mineralogical study of the Petrovsky Academy (which he was in charge of). Faced with the lack of educational manuals on geology in Russian, he created a three-volume textbook "Fundamentals of Geology" (consisted of three parts: "Geography and Geomorphy", "Paleontology" and "Stratigraphy."
Death
Trautschold died in Karlsruhe on October 22, 1902.[1]
