Gregory Shchurovsky
{{Short description|Russian geologist}}
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Gregory Ephimovich Shchurovsky ({{langx|ru|Григо́рий Ефи́мович Щуро́вский}}, {{translit|ru|Grigoriy Efimovich Shchurovskiy}}; 30 January 1803{{nbsp}}– March 20, 1884) was a 19th-century Russian geologist.
Life
Shchurovsky was born in Moscow, Russia, in 1803. After his father was killed in 1812, his mother Maria Gerassimovna could not afford to keep him and he was placed in an orphanage.[http://www.rembi.ru/engnames/exshurovskiien.htm Gregory Ephimovich Shchurovsky (1803 - 1884)] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151118172112/http://www.rembi.ru/engnames/exshurovskiien.htm |date=2015-11-18 }}, rembi.ru, Retrieved 16 November 2015 He took his surname to honor a benefactor.{{what?|date=August 2024}} He attended university{{which?|date=August 2024}} in Moscow where he studied geology.
In 1863 he led the Society of Devotees of Natural Science, Anthropology, and Ethnography. Together with other leading members of the society, he advocated the establishment of a museum in Moscow. They began with the establishment of a library and, in 1871, the Moscow city council set aside half a million rubles for the museum project. The Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich Romanov chaired the committee that established the Polytechnic Museum, opening with an exhibition celebrating the 200th anniversary of Peter the Great.{{what?|date=August 2024}}[http://www.prlib.ru/en-us/History/Pages/Item.aspx?itemid=1174 The Polytechnical Museum opened in Moscow], Presidential Library, Retrieved 17 November 2015
Shchurovsky travelled extensively throughout the Russian Empire, writing about its geology and inhabitants.
He died in 1884. He was replaced as head of the Society of Devotees by August Yulevich Davidov.
Legacy
In 1871, Alexei Fedchenko named Mount Shchurovsky ({{lang|ru|Пик Щуровского}}, {{translit|ru|Pik Shchurovskogo}}) and its Shchurovsky Glacier ({{lang|ru|Ледник Щуровского}}, {{translit|ru|Lednik Shchurovskogo}}) at {{coord|39|36|N|70|36|E}} on what is now the Kyrgyzstan–Tajikistan border in honor of G. E. Shchurovsky.[http://www.alpklubspb.ru/persona/cshurovsky.htm Shchurovsky Grigory Efimovich] on the site alpklubspb.ru. {{Disputed|V. A. Shchurovsky|date=April 2023}}{{efn|The Mount Shchurovsky on the Russia{{ndash}}Georgia border near Mount Elbrus in the Caucasus Mountains was named in 1915 by the Russian climbers S. Golubev, P. Panyutin, and Ya. Frolov in honor of the Russian Mining Society member Vladimir A. Shchurovsky.}} The ridge it belongs to is now more generally reckoned as belonging to Mushketov Peak ({{lang|ru|Мушкетова}}), elevation {{convert|5178|m|sp=us}}.
In 1882, the botanists Eduard August von Regel and Johannes Theodor Schmalhausen published {{lang|la|Schtschurowskia}}, naming a genus of Central Asian flowering plants in the family Apiaceae in honor of G. E. Shchurovsky.{{cite web |title=Schtschurowskia Regel & Schmalh. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:40502-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=20 May 2021 |language=en}}
The following fossilized organisms were also named in his honor: {{small|Krymgolts G. Ya., Krymgolts N. G.}} The names of Russian geologists in paleontological names were named in honor of G.E.Shchurovsky. St. Petersburg, 2000. C. 133.
- Parallelodon schourovskii {{small|Rouillier & Vosinsky, 1847}} - species of bivalve molluscs, Upper Jurassic of the European part of Russia.
- Laugeites stchurovskii {{small|Nikitin, 1881}} - a cephalopod species, Upper Jurassic of the European part of Russia.
- Stschurovskya {{small|Dovaisky, 1941}} - genus of cephalopods, Upper Jurassic of the southeast of the European part of Russia.
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Category:Scientists from Moscow
Category:Geologists from the Russian Empire
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