Editing Mikhail Ostrogradsky (section)

== Life ==
Ostrogradsky was born on 24 September 1801 in the village of Pashennaya (at the time in the [[Poltava Governorate]], [[Russian Empire]], today in [[Kremenchuk Raion]], [[Poltava Oblast]], [[Ukraine]]). From 1816 to 1820, he studied under [[Timofei Fedorovic Osipovsky|Timofei Osipovsky]] (1765–1832) and graduated from the [[Kharkiv University|Imperial University of Kharkov]]. When Osipovsky was suspended on religious grounds in 1820, Ostrogradsky refused to be examined and he never received his Ph.D. degree. From 1822 to 1826, he studied at the [[University of Paris|Sorbonne]] and at the [[Collège de France]] in [[Paris, France]]. In 1828, he returned to the Russian Empire and settled in [[Saint Petersburg]], where he was elected a member of the [[Russian Academy of Science|Academy of Sciences]]. He also became a professor of the [[Military Engineering-Technical University|main military engineering school]] of the Russian Empire.

Ostrogradsky died in [[Poltava]] in 1862, aged 60. The [[Kremenchuk Mykhailo Ostrohradskyi National University]] in [[Kremenchuk]], [[Poltava oblast]], as well as ''Ostrogradsky street'' in [[Poltava]], are named after him.