Mikhail Mikhailovich Pokrovsky

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Mikhail Mikhailovich Pokrovsky ( Russian Михаил Михайлович Покровский * Dec. 21, 1868 . Jul / 2. January  1869 greg. In Tula ; † 10. August 1942 in Kazan ) was a Russian-Soviet philologist .

Live and act

Pokrowski, a student of FF Fortunatow and WF Miller , graduated from Moscow University in 1891 . He worked there from 1894 to 1930 as a professor of Roman literature. In 1929 he became a member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. In the last years of his life he taught at the Moscow Institute of Philosophy, Literature and History and headed the Department of Ancient Literature at the Gorky Institute for World Literature (Институт мировой литературы им. М. Горького, IMLI).

Linguist

Pokrovsky shared the views of the Moscow School of Linguistics. He wrote important works on Latin and general semantics . In his linguistic works Pokrowski has also made a number of valuable contributions to etymology , lexicology and word formation .

Literary scholar

Pokrovsky also dealt with the history of ancient, Western European and Russian literature. He wrote about Virgil , Ovid , Plautus , Terence , Homer , Aristotle , Shakespeare and Pushkin . He was a specialist in the field of comparative literary studies (see under: literary studies) and the theory of artistic translation.

Works (selection)

Linguistic work

  • Семасиологические исследования в области древних языков ( semasiological research in the field of ancient languages ), Moscow 1895 (dissertation).
  • Материалы для исторической грамматики латинского языка ( Materials for a Historical Grammar of Latin ), Moscow 1899 (Habilitation).
  • Избранные работы по языкознанию ( Selected Works on Linguistics ), Moscow 1959.

Literary studies

  • Дидона Вергилия и Дездемона Шекспира ( Virgil's Dido and Shakespeare's Desdemona ), 1902.
  • Очерки по сравнительной истории литературы ( Sketches for a Comparative History of Literature ), Moscow 1905.
  • Лекции по Цицерону, читанные в Императорском Московском университете в 1904/05 ак. г. ( Lectures on Cicero given at the Moscow Imperial University, 1904/05 ), 1905.
  • Пушкин и римские историки ( Pushkin and the Roman Historians ), 1909.
  • Гомер и русский фольклор, драматические и ораторские элементы в поэмах Гомера ( Homer and Russian folklore. Dramatic and oratory elements in the 1929 Homers ).
  • Петроний и русский фольклор ( Petron and Russian Folklore ), 1930.
  • Пушкин и античность ( Pushkin and Antiquity ), 1939.
  • История римской литературы ( History of Roman Literature ), Moscow / Leningrad 1942.

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SURNAME Pokrovsky, Mikhail Mikhailovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Покровский, Михаил Михайлович (Russian); Pokrovsky, Mikhail
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet philologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Tula
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 1942
Place of death Kazan