Yevdokim Zyablovskiy

Yevdokim Filippovich Zyablovskiy (Russian: Евдоким Филиппович Зябловский) (July 31, 1763 March 30, 1846) was a Russian geographer and statistician.

In 1797 Zyablovskiy was appointed as professor of history and geography, and later of statistics, in the Saint Petersburg Teacher's Secondary School (called the Pedagogical Institute after 1803). From 1816 through 1833 he taught at Saint Petersburg University, being named Honored Professor in 1818, and Honorary Member of the University in 1846.

Zyablovskiy's works include:

  • Brief Descriptive Geography of the Russian State (Saint Petersburg, 1787)
  • New Descriptive Geography of the Russian Empire (Saint Petersburg, 1807)
  • Statistical Description of the Russian Empire with a Statistical Review of Europe (Saint Petersburg, 1808)
  • Course in Universal Geography (Saint Petersburg, 1818-1819)
  • Statistics of European States in their Present State (Saint Petersburg, 1830-1831)
  • Russian Statistics (Saint Petersburg, 1831)
  • Geography of the Russian Empire (Saint Petersburg, 1831)
  • Universal Geography (Saint Petersburg, 1831)

Zyablovskiy also taught forestry and published Introduction to Forestry (Saint Petersburg, 1804). He also wrote Course in Universal History (Saint Petersburg, 1811-1812) and Historical Narrative of the Teacher's Secondary School and the Pedagogical Institute (Saint Petersburg, 1838). He translated the work Universal Descriptive Geography (Saint Petersburg, 1807) from German.

References

Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (in Russian). 1906.

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