Nikolai Feodorovich Sumtsov

Nikolai Feodorovich Sumtsov

Nikolai Fedorovich Sumzow ( Russian Николай Фёдорович Сумцов , Ukrainian Микола Федорович Сумцов Mykola Fedorowytsch Sumzow * June 6 ^jul. / 18th June  1854 ^greg. In St. Petersburg , Russian Empire ; † 14. September 1922 in Kharkiv , Ukrainian SSR ) was a Russian - Ukrainian folklorist , ethnographer , literary scholar and a public figure.

Life

Nikolai Sumzow was born into a noble Cossack family in Saint Petersburg. After his birth, the family moved to the Charkow Governorate and Sumzow later attended the Charkiv Gymnasium No. 2, where he acquired extensive knowledge of, among other things, history, philology, Latin, geography of the French and German languages. Outside of school, he learned the Ukrainian language and acquired knowledge of Ukrainian philology. After his university entrance qualification he studied at the historical-philological faculty of the University of Kharkiv and received his doctorate there in 1875.

He then studied in Germany and from 1878 taught Russian literature at Charkiv University, where he defended his dissertation in 1881. Due to the accusations of ukrainophilia , he was allowed to defend his doctoral thesis in 1885, which was the work of Lasar Baranowytsch ( Лазар Баранович ), and received the doctorate for his research on bread in rites and songs . From 1889 on he was a full professor at Kharkiv University and in 1906 he became an honored professor of the history of Russian literature there. Between 1908 and 1916 he was dean of the philosophy of history. As one of the founders of the Kharkiv Historical and Philological Society, he was its secretary from 1880 to 1896 and chaired it from 1897 to 1919. He was also director of the University's Ethnographic Museum between 1904 and 1918. He died in Kharkiv at the age of 68.

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Sumzow dealt mainly with ethnography, especially folklore. He published about 300 scientific and journalistic studies and articles, including monographs and a number of articles on education. As a literary scholar, he published articles on Iwan Wyschenskyj , Joanykij Haljatowskyj ( Йоаникій Галятовський ) and Innocent Giesel as a contribution to a systematic Ukrainian literary history in 1884/85 . Between 1898 and 1918 he published five articles on Taras Shevchenko , in 1897 and 1905 he published articles on Iwan Kotljarewskyj , in 1887, 1892 and 1922 on Oleksandr Potebnja and in 1906 and 1909 on Oleksandr Oles . Sumzow also wrote an article each on Ivan Manschura ( Іван Іванович Манжура ) (1893), Borys Hrintschenko and Ivan Franko (both 1906), Mychajlo Staryzkyj (1908) and Pantelejmon Kulisch (1919).

Memberships

Sumzow became a member of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1899 , in 1905 a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences , in 1908 a full member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society and in 1919 he became a member of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences .

Honors

The Kharkiv Historical Museum ( Ха́рківський істори́чний музе́й імені Миколи Федоровича Сумцова ) , which he founded in 1920 as the Museum of Sloboda-Ukraine , was named after him.

Web links

Commons : Nikolai Sumzow  - collection of images

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mykola Sumtsov: “Life in Ukraine follows a different path” article in day.kyiv from May 13, 2003; accessed on January 15, 2019
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Entry on Mykola Sumzow in the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ; accessed on January 15, 2019 (Ukrainian)
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Entry on Sumtsov, Mykola in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on January 15, 2019
4. ↑ entry to Nikolai Sumzow in Brockhaus and Efron ; accessed on January 15, 2019 (Russian)
5. ↑ entry to Mykola Sumzow in the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia ; accessed on January 15, 2019 (Ukrainian)
6. ^ Website of the Kharkiv Historical Museum ; accessed on January 15, 2019 (Ukrainian)