Osipovskij Timothy Fedorovich General data:
02.02.1765 - 24.06.1832
Place of birth: Osipovka village, Kovrov district, Vladimir province, Russian Empire
Studied in: Vladimir (1783); St. Petersburg Teaching Seminary (since 1991 A.I. Herzen Russian State Pedagogical University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation) (1786);
Key interests: mathematisc, astronomy, theology, philosophy
Biography:
He worn on January 22 (according to the Julian calendar or on February 2 according to the Gregorian calendar) in 1765 ( according to some data, exactly one year later, in 1766) in Osipivo village of the Kovrovsky District of the Vladimir Province of the Russian Empire (now the Kirovsky District of the Vladimir Region of the Russian Federation) in the family of a Christian priest.
By 1783 he studied at Vladimir's Theological Seminary, after which, as the best of his students, he was sent to the St. Petersburg Teaching Seminary (later - the Pedagogical Institute), which he graduated in 1786. He became the best in the first issue of the first Russian pedagogical university.
While still a student, Osipovsky published his first original article "The Language about the Happy State of a Scientist" in the Antimason Magazine "Growing Grapes."
During 1786-1800 he worked as a teacher of physics, mathematics and Russian and Latin literature at the Moscow Main People's College.
During 1800-1803 he was a professor of physics and mathematics at the St. Petersburg Pedagogical Institute. Becomes the first director of the gymnasium library, which is now the M. Gorky Scientific Library.
He took an active part in the opening of the Kharkiv University. At the end of 1802 on behalf of the trustee of Count S.O. Pototsky V.N. Karazin invited him to take the chair of pure mathematics. On February 7, 1803, his person was approved by the emperor as professor of pure mathematics at that time, not yet existing university. In February 1805, the scientist began to read lectures at a university. He read so-called pure mathematics, applied mathematics, mechanics, optics and astronomy, at what he read astronomy 4 hours a week.
In addition, when he opened the University of Kharkiv on January 17, 1805, he was appointed permanent assessor of the university board and a member of the school committee; he was charged with supervising the cashier's university.
In 1807 the Council of the University awarded T.F. Osipovsky doctor's degree. During 1811-1820 he also taught at the Department of Applied Mathematics. He studied mathematics, mechanics, optics and applied astronomy. Among his students was an outstanding mathematician MV Ostrogradsky.
In 1812, the scientist was one of the founders, and subsequently the chairman of the Kharkiv Society of Sciences.
Prepared by T.F. Osipovsky the textbook of mathematics "Mathematics Course" withstood three editions and enjoyed great popularity.
In 1813 Osipovsky was elected vice-rector and then rector of Kharkiv University, and was re-elected for the next three years in 1816 and 1819. It should be noted that in 1808 and 1810, the council of the university twice elected the rector by a majority of votes, but each time he refused this post "for the weakness of health".
For some time he was the editor of the Kharkiv magazine "Ukrainian Herald."
As an advocate of the philosophical views of the French materialists and the adversary of Kant's philosophy, Osipovsky criticized her in her public speeches "On Space and Time" in 1807 and "Reflections on the Dynamic Philosophy of Kant" in 1813. Until the latter, life includes works devoted to the optical phenomena taking place in the earth's atmosphere.It was engaged in the popularization of science, translation activities, in particular, translated into Russian from the French language in 1832 the "heavenly mechanics" of Laplace in the remaining 4 volumes in the manuscript and from the French language in 1805, the logic of Condiillac, in 1793, from the German T. Adams, "Electrical Experiments ...", an active member, and then the head of the Filotechnical Society founded at the Kharkov University. During 1813-1820 he was the rector of the University of Kharkiv. He was approved by the Honored Professor in 1819. However, at the insistence of the reactionary guardian Z. Y. Karniev, he was dismissed from the post of ordinary professor and rector, although to mitigate the conflict between mystics and materialists (which was also Ositpovsky T.F.) in the uni ersyteti, Timothy F. filed a request for his transfer from the Department of Mathematics at the vacant chair of astronomy, the transfer of all teaching mathematics A.F. Pavlovsky. Later he moved to Moscow Сшен.
In 1827 he presented to Emperor Nicholas I, "The study of light phenomena, sometimes visible in the sky, in a certain position in the reflection of the sun or the moon", which was later published a year by the Russian Academy of Sciences in French.
He died 12 (Julian calendar or 24 Gregorian calendar) June 1832 buried on Vagankovsk cemetery in Moscow.
In 1863 a T. Osipovsky scholarship was founded at the Kharkiv University.
Main publications:
1. Осиповский Т. Ф. о действии сил на гибкие тела и происходящем от того равновесии (рукопись)
2. Осиповский Т. Ф. О календаре//Украинский Весник,4, ч. 11, 1816 г., с. 145 — 150
3. Осиповский Т. Ф. Исследование светлых линий, видимых иногда на небе в определенном положении, в рассуждении Солнца или Луны
4. О пространстве и времени. Речь Т. Ф. Осиповского (1807) // Историко-математическое исследование / гл. ред. Г. Ф. Рыбкин, А. П. Юшкевич. –М. : Государственное издательство технико-теоретической литературы, 1952. –Вып. 5. –С. 9-17
Sources:
1 Биографии ректоров Харьковского университета
2 uk.astron.kharkov.ua
3 Два века астрономии в Харьковском университете(фотографии) /Ю. В. Александров, Ю. Г. Шкуратов //Universitates. –- С.298
4 Астрономия в Харьковском университете (к 100летию основания астрономической обсерватории университета) Александров Ю. В. //Очерки ист. естетвознан. и техн. (Киев).-1988-№34. С.57
