Mikhail Nikiforowitsch Katkow
Michael Nikiforowitsch Katkow ( Russian Михаил Никифорович Катков ; born February 13, 1818 in Moscow , † August 1, 1887 in Znamenskoje near Moscow) was a Russian publicist.
Life
He studied in Königsberg and Berlin and became a professor of philosophy in Moscow. As a result of the restriction of teaching freedom, he gave up his office in 1849.
In 1856 he founded a printing company and published the monthly Russki Westnik (Russischer Bote). In 1861 he was also able to lease the Moskowskije Vedomosti ( Moscow News ) belonging to Moscow University for 60,000 rubles a year. In 1866 he founded the Lyceum of Tsarevich Nikolaus in Moscow with his co-editor, the philology professor Pawel Leontjew († 1875) .
Until the Polish January uprising in 1863 he was a friend of English self-government and other reforms. Since then, however, the Moscow newspaper has been calling for a violent Russification of Poland, Lithuania and the Baltic provinces in line with the national, pan-Russian currents and advocating a reactionary and Slavophile direction. Katkow was particularly passionate about being German.
In 1866 the Moscow News was severely reprimanded for its attacks on Minister Pyotr Alexandrovich Valuev ; Katkow, however, will soon be given amnesty again.
After the accession to the throne of Emperor Alexander III. in 1881 Katkow prevented Alexander II from setting up a committee of provincial landscape assemblies and persuaded the tsar to follow a strictly national, reactionary-absolutist system. In foreign politics he pursued anti-German, Pan-Slavist goals.
As his competitor Clemens Friedrich Meyer (Friedrich Meyer von Waldeck) judged, he lacked "honesty of disposition and righteousness in battle".
literature
- Grégoire Liwoff: Michel Katkoff et son époque: quelques pages d'histoire contemporaine en Russie, 1855-1887 ( archive.org )
- Katkow . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon , 1888
Individual evidence
- ↑ Different year of birth 1820. Katkow, Michail Nikiforowitsch . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . 6th edition. Volume 10, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1907, p. 753 .
- ↑ From the Memoirs of a Russian Publicist 3 on Wikisource
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Katkow, Mikhail Nikiforowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Katkow, Michael Nikiforowitsch; Катков, Михаил Никифорович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian publicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 13, 1818 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 1, 1887 |
| Place of death | Znamenskoye near Moscow |