Igor Korniljewitsch Smolitsch
Igor Korniljewitsch Smolitsch ( Russian Игорь Корнильевич Смолич , Ukrainian Ігор Корнійович Смолич Ihor Kornijowytsch Smolytsch * January 27 . Jul / 8. February 1898 greg. In Uman , Kiev Governorate , Russian Empire ; † 2. November 1970 in Berlin ) was a church historian of the Russian Orthodox Church .
Life
Igor Smolitsch was born in 1898 in what is now the Ukrainian city of Uman. After graduating from high school in Shmerynka, Podol in 1916 , he entered the Polytechnic Institute in Kiev . He took part in the Russian Civil War as an officer in the army of Denkin and Kornilov and suffered numerous injuries. With the remnants of Wrangel's army, he came to Constantinople in 1920 , from where he emigrated to Berlin in 1923, after having made his way in Turkey as a lumberjack, assistant cook and night watchman. His parents died before the civil war and he never met his siblings, of whom his younger brother Yury Smolytsch made a career as a writer in the Soviet Union .
A scholarship enabled him in 1923, near the Russian Scientific Institute to study in Berlin, where he at Friedrichswerder market the lectures of Russian emigrants, including Nikolai Berdyaev , Lew Karsavin ( Лев Платонович Карсавин ; 1882-1952), Alexander Kiesewetter , Venedikt Mjakotin ( Венедикт Александрович Мякотин ; 1867–1937) and Vsevolod Stratonow ( Всеволод Викторович Стратонов ; 1869–1938) attended and completed a full study of Russian history and literature in the 16th and 17th centuries with a comprehensive work on the history of the colonies . After the dissolution of the Russian Scientific Institute , he moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in 1925 , where he studied Medieval and Modern Russian History. He submitted his dissertation on life and worldview by Iwan Kirejewski in 1930 and in the following year he completed the rigorosum with Robert Holtzmann , Karl Stählin and Max Vasmer and became a doctor of philosophy . With his friend Jakob Hegner he published his first book in 1936, entitled Life and Teaching of the Starlings , which was published a second time in 1952 and translated into French in 1967. This was followed in 1940 by The Old Russian Monasticism , which he added to his Russian Monasticism in 1953 . Origin, development and essence. 988–1917, Würzburg 1953 = Eastern Christianity, NF 10/11 took over.
After the Second World War , he worked in the antiquarian bookshop until 1948 and declined a professorship at the University of Greifswald due to his injuries sustained during the civil war . After 1948 he was able to devote himself to his scientific work again, since his wife had a thriving medical practice in Berlin-Treptow , and became a research assistant at the Eastern European Institute of the Free University of Berlin . He died in Berlin at the age of 73 and was buried in the Russian cemetery in Tegel .
Honors
- In 1964, the Institut de Théologie Orthodoxe Saint-Serge in Paris made him an honorary doctor of ecclesiastical sciences .
Web links
- Entry on Igor Smolitsch in German Biography
- Entry with picture of Igor Smolitsch in the Orthodox Library of the Mission Department of the Moscow Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church (Russian)
- Entry on Igor Smolitsch on worldcat.org
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Chronicle - Igor Smolitsch Klaus Appel, Georg Ostrogorsky and Günther Stökl; Yearbooks for the History of Eastern Europe New Series, Vol. 19, No. 4 (December 1971), pp. 627-640; accessed on February 1, 2020
- ↑ a b c d e Igor Smolitsch in memory of borisogleb.de ; accessed on February 1, 2020
- ↑ Igor Smolitsch on de.findagrave.com ; accessed on February 1, 2020
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Smolitsch, Igor Korniljewitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Смолич, Игорь Корнильевич (Russian); Smolytsch, Ihor Kornijowytsch (Ukrainian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Church historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 8, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Uman , Kiev Governorate , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd November 1970 |
| Place of death | Berlin |