Timofei Osipovsky

Timofei Fyodorovich Osipovsky was a mathematician, physicist, astronomer and philosopher of the Russian Empire, born in the village of Osipovo and later active in Kharkov. He graduated from the Saint Petersburg Teachers Seminary and became a teacher at Imperial Kharkov University in 1805, the year it was founded, and its rector in 1813. In 1820 he was suspended from his post on religious grounds. His most famous work was the three-volume Course of Mathematics, published between 1801 and 1823, which became a standard university text used for many years. He died in Moscow in 1832.