A. Ch. ALBRECHT, CRAFTSMAN AT ST. PETERSBURG UNIVERSITY, AND AN INSTRUMENT OF HIS MAKING FROM PETER THE GREAT MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY (THE KUNSTKAMERA) OF THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
- Authors: Lupanova E.M1
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Affiliations:
- Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (the Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences
- Issue: Vol 46, No 4 (2025)
- Pages: 739–751
- Section: Materials for the Biographies of Scientists and Engineers
- URL: https://ogarev-online.ru/0205-9606/article/view/361632
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.7868/S2713041X25060078
- ID: 361632
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Abstract
Among the collections of the M. V. Lomonosov Museum at the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (the Kunstkamera) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, there is a thermometer with a barometer, made by a craftsman named Albrecht. Until recently, there was no information about him and it is only in this article, based on a study of sources deposited in the Russian State Historical Archive and St. Petersburg Central State Historical Archive (documents concerned with his education, professional career in the University, business travels, and jobs he was asked to do), that his full name is established (Godfried Karl Adolf, sometimes Adolf Christian) and his life and professional career is reconstructed for the first time. Archival sources taken together with the museum item allow regarding A. C. Albrecht as a skilled professional — it is worth mentioning here that he traveled twice to Germany and France to learn best practices and purchase equipment. Albrecht’s skills were in demand not only in St. Petersburg University; he also made instruments commissioned by Kazan University and St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences’ Observatory.
About the authors
E. M Lupanova
Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (the Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences
Email: lupanova@kunstkamera.ru
St. Petersburg, Russia
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