Ivan Vladimirovich Tsvetaev

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Ivan Tsvetaev (1913)

Ivan Vladimirovich Tsvetaev ( Russian Иван Владимирович Цветаев * May 4. . Jul / 16th May  1847 greg. In the district of Shuya ; † August 30 jul. / 12. September  1913 greg. In Moscow ) was a Russian historian , archaeologist , classicist and art historian .

Life

Ivan Zwetajew was the son of the village priest Vladimir Vasilevich Zwetajew (1818-1884) and his wife Ekaterina Wassilewna (1824-1859). After the mother's untimely death, the father raised his four sons alone to pursue a spiritual profession. Ivan attended the priests' school in Shuja for six years and then studied for another six years at the seminary in Vladimir . He then entered the Medical and Surgical Academy , but soon left it for health reasons and now studied at the University of St. Petersburg in the Classical Department of the Faculty of History and Philology . In 1870 he graduated as a candidate for science.

In 1871 Tsvetaev taught Greek at one of the St. Petersburg high schools. In 1872 he became a lecturer at the Imperial University of Warsaw , where he studied in 1873 with the thesis Cornelii Taciti Germania. I attempt a critical text commentary habilitated .

In 1874 Tsvetaev traveled to Italy to study ancient Italian languages and scripts. In 1876 he was sent to the Kiev St. Vladimir University called, but a year later he got the call to the University of Moscow for the Latin -Teaching at the Department of Roman literature .

Under the influence of his wife Varvara Dmitrijewna b. Ilovaiskaya turned Tsvetaev away from classical philology and towards antiquity . From 1881 he worked in the Moscow Rumyantsev Museum , whose director he was 1900-1910. In 1888 he became an honorary member of the University of Bologna . In 1889 he took over the Chair of Theory and History of Art at Moscow University. At times he worked closely with the journal Philologie-Rundschau .

In 1894, at the First Congress of Artists and Art Lovers , Tsvetaev called for a new museum of fine arts to be built in Moscow. The plan for this came about in 1893 on the occasion of a visit to the Dresden Albertinum , with whose head of the sculpture collection Georg Treu he had a lifelong friendship. A competition was announced, which the architect Roman Ivanovich Klein won. In 1897, Tsvetaev met the millionaire Yuri Stepanovich Nechayev-Malzov , who now became the main financier of the museum. The foundation stone was laid in 1899 , and the Museum of Fine Arts , now the Pushkin Museum , was opened in 1912 . Tsvetaev was the first director until his death. From 1904 he was a corresponding member of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences in the philology and archeology class, and he was a privy councilor.

Tsvetaev had with his first wife Varvara Dmitrijewna nee. Ilowaiskaja (1858-1890), daughter of the historian Dmitri Ivanovich Ilowaiskij , a daughter Valeria (1883-1966), a lecturer at the School of Art Vkhutemas , and a son Andrej (1890-1933). With his second wife Marija Aleksandrowna geb. Meyn (1868-1906) he had two daughters, the poet Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (1892-1941) and the writer Anastasija Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (1894-1993).

Tsvetaev was buried in the Vagankovo ​​cemetery in Moscow .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elizaweta Tumim: Iwan Zwetajew and Georg Treu . Review of the book Erhard Hexelschneider (Ed.): Building an Albertinum in Moscow. Ivan Tsvetaev and Georg Treu in an exchange of letters (1881–1913). Text in German and Russian. Böhlau , Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-412-06306-1 . (Translation by Olga Koseniuk), litkafe.de, accessed on September 4, 2015.
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SURNAME Tsvetaev, Ivan Vladimirovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Цвета́ев, Ива́н Влади́мирович (Russian spelling); Zvetaieff, Ivan Vladimirovich; Cvetaev, Ivan; Tsvetaev, Ivan Vladimirovich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian classical philologist, classical scholar and art historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Shuja District
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1913
Place of death Moscow