Grigorii Ivanovich Fischer von Waldheim: In Commemoration of 250th Anniversary of His Birthday

 
PIIS020596060017427-1-1
DOI10.31857/S020596060017427-1
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Affiliation: S. I. Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences
Address: Moscow, Ul. Baltiyskaya, 14
Journal nameVoprosy istorii estestvoznaniia i tekhniki
EditionVolume 42 Issue 4
Pages726-748
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This paper commemorates the 250th anniversary of birth of Grigorii Ivanovich Fischer von Waldheim, a German naturalist who came to Moscow in 1804 at the invitation of the trustee of Moscow University M. N. Muravyov to take the chair in natural history and the post of director of the University Museum of Natural History. The paper analyzes the historiography on Fischer von Waldheim and recounts the circumstances of his invitation to Russia. Special attention is given to his fifty-year-long work in Russia and his still underestimated contributions to the development and institutionalization of natural sciences, and the establishment of natural history education at Moscow University and Moscow Medico-Surgical Academy.

KeywordsG. I. Fischer von Waldheim, natural history, Moscow University, Moscow Society of Naturalists
Received14.12.2021
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