Peter Schmidt (zoologist)

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Peter Yulievich Schmidt (born 23 December 1872, St. Petersburg, died 25 November 1949, Leningrad) was a Russian and Soviet zoologist, ichthyologist [1] and museum curator. [2]

Peter Yulievich Schmidt attended the gymnasium of KI May before studying at the Physics and Mathematics Faculty of St. Petersburg University, from where he graduated in 1895. He was engaged in the laboratory of Professor V.M. Shimkevich and V.T. Shevyakov. He travelled through Semirechiy in 1899-1902. In 1908-1910 he participated in the Kamchatka expedition of F. P. Ryabushinsky, where he headed the zoological department. [3] In 1906, he was awarded with a gold medal named after Petr Petrovich Semyonov by the Imperial Russian Geographical Society. [4]

From 1906 to 1930 he held the position of a professor at the Agricultural Institute in St. Petersburg (Leningrad) and from 1914 to 1931 he worked at the Zoological Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences. From 1930 to 1949 Schmidt was a scientific secretary to the Pacific Committee of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.

In 1938 he was arrested. along with a group of other employees of the Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, by the NKVD because they had non-Russian surnames. Schmidt was suspected of espionage for Germany and Japan on the grounds that he had been on scientific missions in Berlin and Tokyo. After interrogation, during which the 66-year-old professor was knocked out, he signed the protocol as required by the NKVD investigators and also confessed to being an Italian spy, as his daughter lived in Italy. Eventually, he was released and was able to continue his scientific activity. [5]

Until 1900 the main scientific interests of Schmidt were in arachnology, the morphology of the inferior millipedes and the invertebrate fauna of Semirechiye. Even while he was at university, he received a gold medal for a study of millipedes a gold medal. [6] His best known work came after 1900 when he began to study the fish fauna of the Pacific and Ichthyology in its broader sense. Schmidt was the first zoologist to observe the anabiosis in desiccated earthworms. [7] He translated scientific literature from German into Russian and was the editor of the Russian "Small Biological Encyclopedia".

The colubrid snake Dolichophis schmidti , [8] the salmonid Salvelinus schmidti, the cod species Lepidion schmidti, the Northern smoothtongue Leuroglossus schmidti , the eelpout Lycogrammoides schmidti, the lumpfish Eumicrotremus schmidti, the amphipod Anisogammarus schmidti, and a range of mountains on the island of Urup in the Kurile Islands are all named in honour of Schmidt.

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  1. ↑ "Шмидт Петр Юльевич (биография) (Schmidt Petr Yulevich (biography))" (in Russian). Kamchatsky Krai. Retrieved 31 March 2018.
  2. ↑ "Schmidt [Shmidt, Shmit], Petr [Pyotr, Piotr, Peter] Yulievich [Yul'evich, Yulyevich, Iulievich, Iul'evich, Iulyevich] (1872-1949)". Helix Art Center. Retrieved 31 March 2018.
  3. ↑ "К 100-летию c начала работы на Камчатке научной экспедиции Ф. П. Рябушинского (1908–1910)" (in Russian). Пирагис Александр Петрович. Retrieved 31 March 2018.
  4. ↑ "ПЕРЕЧЕНЬ НАГРАЖДЕННЫХ ЗНАКАМИ ОТЛИЧИЯ РУССКОГО ГЕОГРАФИЧЕСКОГО ОБЩЕСТВА (1845-2012)" (PDF) (in Russian). Russian Geographical Society. Retrieved 31 March 2018.
  5. ↑ Балушкин А. В. (2003). "Начала Петербургской ихтиологической школы. Письма Л. С. Берга А. Н. Световидову". Труды Зоологического института РАН (in Russian). 301: 1–95. Source for the original Russian article
  6. ↑ "Петербургский университет. Отчет о состоянии и деятельности Императорского С.-Петербургского университета з... описание" (in Russian). dlib.rsl.ru. Retrieved 31 March 2018.
  7. ↑ Шмидт П.Ю. (1920). "Анабиоз дождевых червей". Труды Петроградского об-ва естествоиспытателей (in Russian). . 50 (1): 1–19.Source for the original Russian article
  8. ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN   978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Schmidt, P. Y.", p. 236).


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