Feodor Yulievich Levinson-Lessing
Geologist, Deceased Person
1861 – 1939
Who was Feodor Yulievich Levinson-Lessing?
Fëdor Yulievich Levinson-Lessing, or Franz Theodor Levinson-Lessing was a Russian geologist.
He graduated from the physico-mathematical faculty of the University of St. Petersburg in 1883, was placed in charge of the geological collection in 1886, and was appointed privat-docent at St. Petersburg University in 1889. In 1892 he became professor, and the next year dean, of the physico-mathematical faculty of Yuryev University. Aside from his work on petrography he published also essays in other branches of geology, the result of scientific journeys throughout Russia.
An island in the Kara Sea was named after this prominent Russian geologist.
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