Ossip Maximowitsch Bodjansky
Osip Bodyansky ( Russian Осип Максимович Бодянский ., Scientific transliteration Osip Maksimovič Bodjanskij ; born November 3 jul. / 15. November 1808 greg. In Varva , Chernigov Governorate , Russian Empire , † September 6 jul. / 18 September 1877 greg . in Moscow ) was a Russian - Ukrainian Slavist , writer and historian .
Career
As the son of a clergyman, Bodjanski attended the seminary in Pereyaslav until 1831 and studied at the University of Moscow , which he graduated in 1834. He then worked first as a high school teacher, later at the Slavic Department of Moscow University. In 1837 he was awarded the master's degree with his dissertation “On the folk poetry of the Slavic tribes”, taking into account Ukrainian folk songs . As a researcher, he traveled to the Slavic countries on behalf of the Russian government from 1837 to 1842 to study the languages, literature and ethnography of the same, and after his return in 1842 he took over the professorship for the history and literature of the Slavic peoples at the Moscow University.
In February 1844, Bodjansky met Taras Shevchenko and corresponded with him for several years; Two letters from Bodjanski and six from Shevchenko have survived from the correspondence. Through his work he made a significant contribution to the spread of Shevchenko's poetry in the Slavic countries.
Bodjansky died in Moscow on September 6, 1877.
Works
His main work was the publication of the content-rich "Treatises of the Moscow Society of Russian History and Antiquities" (1846–49 and 1858–78). Of his own writings, “On the Folk Poetry of the Slavic Tribes” (1837) and “On the Time of the Origin of the Slavic Script” (1855) should be emphasized.
Names / pseudonyms
Bodjanski wrote under various pseudonyms , including Ossyp Boda-Warwynez ( О. Бода-Варвинець ), Isko Materynka ( Ісько Материнка ) and I. Mastak ( І. Мастак ). The Ukrainian spelling of his name is Ossyp Maxymowytsch Bodjanskyj ( Осип Максимович Бодянський )
Web links
- Literature by and about Ossip Maximowitsch Bodjanski in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article Ossip Maximowitsch Bodjanski in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
- ↑ Taras Shevchenko - A Ukrainian Poet's Life; Literary Study, p. 15; Alfred Jensen , Vienna 1916
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Bodjansky, Ossip Maximowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Бодянский, Осип Максимович (Russian); Boda-Warwynez, Ossyp (pseudonym); Maternyka, Isko (pseudonym); Mastak, I. (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian-Ukrainian Slavist, writer and historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 15, 1808 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Varva , Chernigov Governorate , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 18, 1877 |
| Place of death | Moscow , Russian Empire |