Alexander Karpinsky

Details

Instance of

human

Born

26 December 1846

Died

15 July 1936

Place of birth

Krasnoturyinsk

Place of death

Udelnaya

Sex or gender

male

Given name

Aleksandr

Family name

Karpinski

Father

Pyotr Mikhailovich Karpinsky

Mother

Maria Grashof

Spouse

Akeksandra Brusnitsyna

Child

Evgeniya Tolmatcheva-Karpinskaya

Field of work

geology, stratigraphy, paleontology, mineralogy, petrography

Occupation

paleontologist, geologist, professor, mining engineer, botanist

Position held

president of the Russian Academy of Sciences, president of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Citizenship

Russian Empire, Russian Republic, Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, Soviet Union

Awards

Hayden Memorial Geological Award, Constantin Medal, Wollaston Medal, Order of Saint Alexander Nevsky, Knight of the Order of St. Alexander Nevsky, Order of the White Eagle, Order of St. Vladimir, Order of Saint Anna, 1st class, Order of Saint Stanislaus, Order of Saint Anna, 2nd class, Royal Order of the Polar Star, Order of the Crown of Romania

civil rank

Privy Councillor

described by source

Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5, Faces of Moscow

educated at

Mining Engineers Corps

employer

Geological Committee, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences (1917–1925), Academy of Sciences of the USSR

languages spoken, written or signed

Russian

member of

German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Academy of Sciences of Turin, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei

name in native language

Александр Петрович Карпинский

place of burial

Kremlin Wall Necropolis

relative

Anosov Pavel Petrovich

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