1. Konstantin Dmitrievich Glinka was a Russian soil scientist.
19 Facts About Konstantin Glinka
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Konstantin Glinka was Director of the Agricultural College of Leningrad and Experimental Station, and the first director of the Dokuchaev Soil Science Institute.
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Konstantin Glinka authored over 150 works on soil, geography, mineralogy, and geology.
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Konstantin Glinka is known for having published the first world soil map in 1906.
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Konstantin Glinka was born on June 23,1867, in the village of Koptevo, Dukhovshchinsky Uyezd, Smolensk province, Russian Empire.
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Konstantin Glinka came from a Russian noble family with Polish roots.
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Konstantin Glinka's father, the nobleman Dmitry Konstantinovich Glinka, was a respected and progressive figure.
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Konstantin Glinka had an estate and was very successful in farming, skills which Glinka's father passed on along his son.
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Konstantin Glinka is buried at the Shuvalov cemetery in St Petersburg.
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Dokuchaev, Glinka joined the Mineralogy Department to prepare for a professorship.
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Konstantin Glinka worked in the Poltava and in the expedition of the Forest Department.
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Konstantin Glinka organized research in Smolensk, Novgorod, Pskov and Voronezh provinces.
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Konstantin Glinka was appointed chairman of the professorial disciplinary court in 1908.
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From this point in his career, Konstantin Glinka became increasingly involved in the international community of soil scientists.
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Konstantin Glinka became very influential resulting in wide distribution of the ideas of the Russian school of soil science.
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On January 2,1926, K D Glinka was elected a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union - Department of Physical and Mathematical Sciences.
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Konstantin Glinka became the first soil scientist elected to the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.
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Konstantin Glinka was elected president of the Second International Congress of Soil Scientists.
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From 1889 to 1927 Konstantin Glinka wrote about 100 scientific papers on soil science, mineralogy and geology in Russian, German, French and Italian.