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KOKSHAROV, NIKOLAI IVANOVICH VON (18181893)

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 887 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: KHA-KRI
KOKSHAROV, NIKOLAI IVANOVICH VON (18181893) ,
Russian
  mineralogist and major-general in the
Russian
  army, was born at Ust-Kamenogork in
Tomsk
 , on the 5th of December 1818 (o.s.). He was educated at the military school of mines in St
Petersburg
 . At the age of twenty-two he was selected to accompany R. I. Murchison and De Verneuil, and afterwards De Keyserling, in their
geological
  survey of the Russian
Empire
 . Subsequently he devoted his attention mainly to the study of
mineralogy
  and
mining
 , and was appointed director of the Institute of Mines. In x865 he became director of the Imperial Mineralogical Society of St
Petersburg
 . He contributed numerous papers on euclase, zircon,
epidote
 , orthite, monazite and other mineralogical subjects to the St Petersburg and Vienna
academies
  of science, to Poggendorf's Annalcn, Leonhard and Brown's Jahrbuch, &c. He also issued as
separate
  works Malerialen zur Mineralogie Russlands (ro vols., 18531891), and Vorlesungen fiber Mineralogie (1865). He died in St Petersburg on the 3rd of January 1893 (o.s.).


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