Schilling P.L., (1786-1837), physicist and orientalist

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SCHILLING Pavel Lvovich (1786-1837, St. Petersburg), an electrical engineer and orientalist, corresponding member of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences in Oriental Literature and Antiquities from 1827. After graduating from the First Cadet Corps in 1802, he served in the army for about a year and later at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He studied Asian ethnic groups, arranged expeditions, and collected manuscripts. The author of works on electrical engineering, he invented an electronic mine and detonated it on the Neva in 1812. He also built an electromagnetic telegraph and demonstrated its operation for the first time in public in his flat at 7 Field of Mars (memorial plaque) in 1832. He made a telegraph network the Main Admiralty, uniting sets installed in extreme ends of the building. He was buried at the Smolenskoe Lutheran Cemetery.

References: Яроцкий А. В. Павел Львович Шиллинг, 1786-1837. М., 1963.

V. V. Cheparukhin. Schilling Pavel Lvovich
The Field of Mars/Saint Petersburg, city, house 7
Яроцкий А. В. Павел Львович Шиллинг, 1786-1837. М., 1963 Russian Academy of Sciences
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Admiralty