Gerassim Petrovich Pavsky

Gerassim Petrovich Pawski ( J. Reimers , 1835, Hermitage (Saint Petersburg) )

Gerasim Petrovich Pawski ( Russian Герасим Петрович Павский ; born March 4 ^jul. / 15. March  1787 ^greg. In Pawy, Rajon Porkhov , † April 19 ^jul. / 1. May  1863 ^greg. In St. Petersburg ) was a Russian priest , Philologist , Bible translator and university professor .

Life

Gerassim Petrovich, son of the local priest Pyotr Makarjew, was accepted into the Alexander Nevsky Spiritual Seminary in St. Petersburg at the age of ten , where he was given the new family name Pawski as usual . He was always at the top of the student lists and was appointed teacher of the lower grades. Since his father could not pay for the education, he was destitute, so he provided various services to wealthy, less gifted students. In 1814 he completed his studies as the best and became the master of theology doctorate. His master's thesis, in which he examined the book of Psalms archaeologically , philologically and hermeneutically and which he had written in Russian instead of the usual Latin , was recommended for publication. He left the seminary as a teacher.

1816-1817 Pawski gave religious instruction in the Lyceum Tsarskoje Selo . In 1818 he became professor for the Hebrew language at the University of St. Petersburg and wrote a Hebrew grammar with further editions in Moscow in 1822, 1839 and 1855 . In 1819 he became professor of theology at the Saint Petersburg Spiritual Academy . He was a translator in the Russian Bible Society . In 1821 he was awarded a doctorate . In his lectures on the Old Testament , he used the texts from his own translation and a chronology that deviated from the established Bible canon .

In 1826 Pawski was appointed teacher of religion to the heir to the throne Alexander Nikolayevich . In 1835, at the urging of Metropolitans Serafim Glagolewski of St. Petersburg and Philaret Drozdov of Moscow, this office was withdrawn from him. In 1841 Agafangel Solovyov reported a dangerous new underground translation of the Bible to the Metropolitan Philaret Amfiteatrow of Kiev , which he believed was a temptation to Pawki. Then the chief procurator of the Holy Synod, Count Nikolai Alexandrowitsch Protasov, was turned on and an investigation into Pawski's behavior began. About 300 copies of the translation were confiscated and destroyed. Some copies were kept under lock and key in the Holy Synod. Pawski was not punished in order not to let the matter get loud. The matter was quietly closed with a warning from Pawski and the supervision of those involved in the secret printing of the translation. Some of the academy's teachers have been fired.

In 1844 Pawski received the Demidow Prize . In 1858 Pawski was elected a full member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences .

From the beginning of the 1860s, Pawski could no longer leave his apartment due to a leg illness. He was buried in the cemetery of the Imperial Porcelain Manufactory St. Petersburg , which was destroyed during the Soviet Union .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Арсений Вольский .: Павский, Герасим Петрович . In: Русский биографический словарь А. А. Половцова . tape 13 , 1902, pp. 103-109 ( s: ru: РБС / ВТ / Павский, Герасим Петрович [accessed August 7, 2018]).
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Slowo: Протоиерей Герасим Петрович Павский: труды по переводу Священного Писания на русский языкий, accessed August 7, 2018.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Барсов Н. И., Булич С. К .: Павский (Герасим Петрович, 1787–1863) . In: Brockhaus-Efron . XXIIa, 1897, p. 576-577 ( see: ru: ЭСБЕ / Павский, Герасим Петрович [accessed August 7, 2018]).
4. ↑ Russkaja Biblija: Прот. Герасимъ Петровичъ Павскій († 1863 г.) (accessed August 7, 2018).
5. ↑ Prawski GP: Краткая еврейская грамматика для обучающихся священному языку в духовных училищах . Тип. Греча, St. Petersburg 1818.
6. ↑ Б. Подъяческая: Воспоминания протоиерея И. И. Базарова . In: Russkaya Starina . tape CVI , no. 5 , 1901, pp. 277–306 ( runivers.ru [accessed August 7, 2018]).
7. ↑ Russian Academy of Sciences: Павский Герасим Петрович (accessed August 7, 2018).