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Dmitri Mendeleev: Siberia
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Dmitri Mendeleev was born in Tobolsk, Siberia, on February 8th, 1834, to Ivan Pavlovich Mendeleev and Maria Dimitrievna Mendeleeva (nee Kornilieva). His grandfather Pavel Medeleev, a Jewish merchant from Shklov, converted to Orthodox Christianity in 1804 and moved to St.Petersburg.
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Dmitrii Mendeleev was born on Feb. 8, 1834, in the Siberian town of Tobolsk. He was the seventeenth and last child of Ivan Pavlovich and Maria Dmitrievna Mendeleev. At the age of 7 Dmitrii entered the gymnasium in Tobolsk and completed his studies in 1849. He displayed brilliant intellectual ability, a sharp memory, and a fascination for mathematics, physics, and geography. The following year he enrolled in the division of mathematical and natural sciences of the Main Pedagogical Institute of St. Petersburg, his father's alma mater.
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Mendeleev was born in Tobolsk, Siberia, the youngest of fourteen children of Maria Dmitrievna Korniliev and Ivan Pavlovitch Mendeleev. At the age of fourteen, after the death of his father, Mendeleev attended the Gymnasium in Tobolsk. In 1849, the now poor family Mendeleev relocated to St. Petersburg, where he entered the university in 1850. After graduating, an illness that was diagnosed as tuberculosis caused him to move to the Crimean Peninsula near the Black Sea in 1855, where he became chief science master of the local gymnasium. He returned with fully restored health to St. Petersburg in 1856.
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