Anton Semjonowitsch Budilowitsch
Anton Semyonovich Budilowitsch ( Russian Антон Семёнович Будилович ; born May 24 . Jul / 5. June 1846 greg. In Komotowo , Grodno , † December 12 jul. / 25. December 1908 greg. In Saint Petersburg ) was a Russian Slavonic .
Budilowitsch was rector of the University of Warsaw from 1890 to 1892 and from 1882 to 1901 rector of the university in Tartu, Livonia (then Jurjew ). He is considered an advocate of Russification in the then peripheral regions of the Russian Empire .
Life and science
Anton Budilowitsch was born into a Belarusian family. His father was an Orthodox priest. Anton Budilowitsch was also influenced by religion. He attended a theological seminar for some time, but then studied history and philology at the Imperial University of the Russian capital Saint Petersburg from 1864 .
In 1869 Budilowitsch became a private lecturer at the Saint Petersburg Spiritual Academy . From 1870 he taught at the Petersburg Historical-Philological Institute. In 1871 he defended his thesis on "Исследование языка древнеславянского перевода XIII слов Григория Богослова по рукописи Императорской Публичной библиотеки XI века". In 1875 Budilowitsch became a full professor at the Historical-Philological Institute in Nischyn . In 1878 he submitted his doctoral thesis with the title "Первобытные славяне в их языке, быте и понятиях".
From 1881 to 1892 Budilowitsch was professor of Russian and Church Slavonic in Warsaw . From 1890 to 1892 he was rector of the university . Subsequently, the politically reliable Budilowitsch was appointed to Livonia by the Russian religious authorities .
From 1892 to 1901 Anton Budilowitsch was Professor of Comparative Grammar of Slavic Languages at the Imperial University in Tartu, Livonia (German Dorpat ). During this time Budilovich was also the rector of the university. He replaced the last Baltic German rector of the Imperial University, Ottomar Meykow .
Budilowitsch vehemently advocated the Russification of Tartus and the university. Under his leadership, the university, which had been German-speaking since 1802, was transformed into an almost entirely Russian-speaking educational institution. All German and numerous German Baltic professors and students left Tartu, which from 1893 was only allowed to bear the Russian name Jurjew .
In 1901 Budilowitsch became an advisor in the Russian Ministry of Education. In 1905 he was appointed chairman of the Council for Schooling of Foreigners. Budilovich vehemently opposed separatist currents and anti-Russian tendencies among non-Russians.
Publications and memberships
Loyal to the Tsar, Budilovich wrote numerous essays on conservative-patriotic and Slavic topics that appeared in Russian newspapers. Budilowitsch was a supporter of the Russification of the empire, especially in its non-Slavic outskirts. He represented a literary Pan-Slavism with Russian as the leading language and advocated the unity of the Greco-Slavic world under religious-orthodox auspices.
Anton Budilowitsch published numerous studies on the Slavic languages and Russian cultural history. He was particularly concerned with Mikhail Lomonossow as a scientist, philologist and writer as well as with the works and works of Cyril and Method .
Budilovich was a member of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society and the Academy of Sciences . Together with the Tartu professor Yevgeny Petuchow (1863-1948) he founded the learned literary society, which was affiliated to the University of Tartu. The research institution investigated issues related to Russian culture. It was active until 1918.
Budilovich also founded the Galician-Russian Society and was its first president. His wife Elena Dobryanskaya (1850-1922), a daughter of the publicist and politician Adolf Dobryanský (1817-1901) , also came from Galicia . The couple had two sons and a daughter.
Budilovich died in Saint Petersburg in 1908. He is buried in the cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Monastery .
literature
- Album rectorum Universitatis Tartuensis 1632–1997. Tartu 1997
- Eesti elulood. Tallinn: Eesti entsüklopeediakirjastus 2000 (= Eesti entsüklopeedia 14) ISBN 9985-70-064-3 , p. 42
- Anton Semjonowitsch Budilowitsch . In: Bernhard Meijer (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 4 : Brant-Cesti . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1905, Sp. 514 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Budilowitsch, Anton Semjonowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Будилович, Антон Семёнович (Russian spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian Slavist and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 5, 1846 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Komotowo , Grodno Governorate |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 25, 1908 |
| Place of death | St. Petersburg |