Chilean Geologists - Ignacy Domeyko, Pedro Jos Amadeo Pissis, Mario Pino Quivido, Juan Br Ggen Messtorff (Paperback)

Chapters: Ignacy Domeyko, Pedro Jos Amadeo Pissis, Mario Pino Quivido, Juan Br ggen Messtorff. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ignacy Domeyko or Domejko (Spanish: Belarusian: Lithuanian: July 31, 1802 January 23, 1889, Santiago de Chile) was a 19th-century Chilean geologist, mineralogist and educator who was born in Nesvizh, Imperial Russia (present-day Belarus), into a Polish-Lithuanian family. Domeyko spent most of his life, and died, in his adopted country, Chile. After a youth passed in the partitioned Polish-Lithuanian lands, Domeyko participated in the November 1830 Uprising against the Russian Empire. Upon its suppression, he was forced into exile and spent part of his life in France before eventually settling in Chile, of which he became a citizen. He lived some 50 years in Chile and made major contributions to the study of that country's geography, geology and mineralogy. His observations on the circumstances of poverty-stricken miners and of their wealthy exploiters had a profound influence on those who would go on to shape Chile's labor movement. Domeyko is seen as having had close ties to several countries and thus in 2002, when UNESCO organized a series of commemorations of the 200th anniversary of his birth, he was referred to as "a citizen of the world." Krakowskie Przedmiecie 64, Warsaw, with plaque commemorating Domeyko Plaque commemorating the "distinguished son of the Polish nation and eminent citizen of Chile"Domeyko was born in present-day Belarus, at a manor then located within the the Russian part of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, at Niedwiadka Wielka (Belarusian: Miadzviedka) Manor (Bear Cub Manor), near Niewie (Nesvizh), Nowogr dek (Navahradak) district, Minsk Governorate, Imperial Russia (now Karelic...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=499439