Glinka Konstantin Dmitrievich was a soil scientist, a geologist, ateacher, a Doctor of Mineralogy and Geology, a professor and a Member of the Academy of Science of USSR.
Background
Glinka Konstantin Dmitrievich was born on August 01, 1867 in Koptevo village, Dukhovschinsky Uyezd, Smolensk Governorate (now optevo, Russian Federation). He comes from the noble family of Glinki. Scientist's father was Dmitry Konstantinovich Glinka.
Education
In 1889 he graduated from the Natural Sciences Department of Physics and Mathematics Faculty of St. Petersburg University.
In 1890-1892 Konstantin was left in the Saint Petersburg University to be prepared for the professorship in the department of mineralogy and geology. Also he worked as the keeper of the mineralogical cabinet. Since 1894 future scientist was an assistant, associate professor, professor of the Department of Mineralogy and Geology. Since 1901 Glinka worked as professor, head of the Soil Science Department of the Novo-Alexandria Institute of Agriculture and Forestry. Under the leadership of V.V. Dokuchaev he conducted researches on chernozem soils at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries in the Kamennaya Steppe of the Voronezh Governorate. Since 1911 Konstantin was a private professor of St. Petersburg University, at the same time he worked as a professor at the Higher Women's (Bestuzhev) courses. In 1912 Glinka was an organizer and chairman of the Dokuchaev Soil Committee. In 1913-1917, 1921-1922 he was a rector and the head of the Soil Science Department of the Voronezh Agricultural Institute. Since 1922 the scientist worked as a rector of the Petrograd (Leningrad) Agricultural Institute. Since 1927 he was the director of the Dokuchaev Soil Science Institute of Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Konstantin Glinka is the author of more than 150 works on soil science, geology and mineralogy, including such books as: "Geology and soils of the Voronezh Governorate" (Voronezh, 1923), "Soil Science" (St. Petersburg, 1908; Petrograd, 1915; Moscow-Leningrad, 1927; Moscow-Leningrad, 1931; Moscow-Leningrad, 1932; Moscow, 1936), "Mineralogy; genesis and soils geography" (Moscow, 1978).
Achievements
Works
book
Geology and soils of the Voronezh Governorate
1923
Soil Science
1908
Mineralogy; genesis and soils geography
Membership
Russian Mineralogical Society
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Russian Federation