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1) polymath a) a person who writes books, articles

2) scientist b) a person who writes or studies history

3) writer c) a person of great and varied learning

4) chemist d) a person who writes poetry

5) physicist e) a person studying, trained in, or engaged in chemistry

6) mineralogist f) a person who studies linguistics

7) historian g) a person who studies or practises any of the sciences or who uses scientific

methods

8) philologist h) a scientist trained in mineralogy

9) poet i) a person versed in or studying physics

He was a Russian polymath, scientist and writer.

His spheres of science - natural science, chemistry, physics, mineralogy, history, art, philology, optical devices.

Lomonosov was also a poet, who created the basis of the modern Russian literary language.

the village of Denisovka, the Arkhangelsk Governorate,

the Far North of Russia.

Learning was young Lomonosov's passion.

He had been taught to read as a boy by Ivan Shubny.

He spent every spare moment with his books.

For many years the only books he had access to were religious texts.

In 1730 Lomonosov joined a caravan traveling to Moscow.

After arriving he obtained admission into the Slavic Greek Latin Academy.

After three years in Moscow he was sent to Kiev to study for one year at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. He quickly became dissatisfied with the education and returned to Moscow.

He completed a twelve-year study course in only five years, graduating at the top of his class. In 1736, Lomonosov was awarded a scholarship to Saint Petersburg State University.

He plunged into his studies and was rewarded with a two-year grant to study abroad at the University of Marburg, in Germany.

Lomonosov quickly mastered the German language, philosophy, seriously studied chemistry and even began writing poetry. He also developed an interest in German literature.

During his residence in Germany he fell in love with Catharina’s daughter Elisabeth Christine Zilch. They were married in June 1740.

Lomonosov returned to Russia in 1741. He was named adjutant to the Russian

Academy of Science in the physics department.

In 1743 Lomonosov was accused, arrested, and held under house arrest for eight months.

He was released and pardoned in January 1744.

In 1745 Lomonosov was made a full member of the Academy and named professor of chemistry.

He established the Academy's first chemistry laboratory.

In 1755 Lomonosov joined his patron Count Ivan Shuvalov in founding the Moscow State University.

He made a lot of discoveries in: Physics, Astronomy, Chemistry, Geography, Mosaicism, poetry.

In 1761 Lomonosov was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

In 1764 he was appointed to the position of secretary of state.

Most of his accomplishments were unknown outside Russia until long after his death.

Moscow State University was renamed ‘’M. V. Lomonosov

Moscow State University’’ in his honor in 1940.