This week i must speak about some
geographers that admire and this time i don´ have doubts like the past week.
my choice is easy, the geographer that admire is Mikhail Lomonosov. (He
is known like the father of the russian Geography)
I´m going to tell you who is him:
Mikhail Vasilyevish Lomonosov
(1711-1765) was a great russian erudite, that contributed in different areas of
the knowledge like: Chemistry Physics, Mineralogy, Geography, Glaciology,
Optics, Astronomy and History, Philology, Visual Art, Poetry, Literature,
Education, Philosophy and expert in languages (ancient Slavonic, Latin, Greek
and German) moreover the Russian.
Lomonosov born in 1711 in the
village of Kholmogory ( in the coast of White sea in Russia), he born in a poor
family, his father worked like a farmer and a fisher, till hi was 19 years old
didn't go out from his village and hi was educated for his mother which was daughter
of a deacon. He traveled with his father around the north of Russia and he
learned navigation, maritime meteorology and he met with the northern peoples
such as the Finns, Nenets and Laplanders.
He left his
home in 1730 and went to Moscow, where he entered to study the primary
education, later he studied in the "Slavo-Greco-Latin Academy in Moscow,
where Lomonosov studied in 5 years the programation for 8 years. He got a
grant in this institution to go to study in the Academy of Science in Saint Petersburg,
a year later he was sent to study in University of Manburg, Germany, later he
was to Freiburg to study in a Mining Academy (Chemistry, Physics, Mechanics,
Mining and Smelting.
In 1740 he returned to Manburg to get married Elisabeth Christine Zilch,
and he began to be writer and poet. Between 1754 and 1755, helps in the
founding of the University of Moscow, which bears his name (the best and largest
University in Russia now). In 1765 Lomonosov died in Saint Petersburg
when he was 53 years old.
Lomonosov did great contributions to the "Earth Sciences", for this
reason he is known like the father of the Russian Geography.
In Earth
Sciences:
- He got close
to the Continental Drift's Theory.
- He predicted
theorically the existence of the Antarctica, arguing thet the icebergs in the
South oceans could be formed only on a dry land covered with ice.
- He organized
an expedition in 1764 to find the northeast passage between the Pacific and
Atlantic oceans sailing along the northern coast of Siberia.
I admire to Lomonosov for his great knowledge and value, he is an
example for everyone to demonstrate that it is possible to surge in life. He
didn’t have almost anything probability to surge and notwithstanding he did too
much more than anyone with more resources in Russia.
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