Franz Petrovich Schiller

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Franz Petrovich Schiller ( Russian Франц Петрович Шиллер ; born November 10, 1898 in the village of Tonkoschurowka (Mariental), Samara Governorate , Russian Empire ; † June 22, 1955 in Tinskaja, Krasnoyarsk region , Soviet Union ) was a Soviet literary scholar .

Life

Schiller was born into a family of Russian-German smallholders in the Volga German village of Mariental.

From 1917 to 1921 he worked as a teacher. After that, he began studying at Moscow State University . From 1929 he taught literature there. He was also an employee of the Gorky Institute for World Literature.

In 1938 he was arrested as part of the Stalin purges . After his release in 1946 he worked as a school teacher for German in the Omsk region.

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Individual evidence

  1. Воспоминания о ГУЛАГе: Биографическая справка - Шиллер Франц Петрович (1898-1955) ученый-филолог. In: Sakharov-Center.ru. Компьютерная база данных "Воспоминания о ГУЛАГе и их авторы" составлена Музеем и общественным центром "Мир, прогресс, права человека" имени Андрея Сахарова при поддержке Агентства США по международному развитию (USAID), Фонда Джексона (США) Фонда Сахарова (США) Retrieved January 25, 2019 (Russian).
  2. Виктор Дизендорф, Александр Шпак: Автобиография Ф.П. Шиллера. In: wolgadeutsche.net. Retrieved January 25, 2019 (Russian).