Peter Shalfeev

Peter Schalfejew (* 1 February ^{. Jul} / 13. February 1858 ^greg. In Fosse Mountain, Livonia , † 4. February 1916 in Berlin ) was a Baltic -German Slawist .

Life

Peter Schalfejew, son of an Orthodox priest, studied Russian language and literature at the University of Dorpat from 1880 to 1884 . During his studies in 1880 he became a member of the Neobaltia Dorpat corporation . From 1885 he worked as a senior teacher at the municipal secondary school in Libau and from 1892 at the Nikolai grammar school there. After marrying an Evangelical Lutheran German-Baltic woman and refusing to bring up his children in an Orthodox manner, he emigrated to Berlin in 1893, where he became honorary professor of Russian at the United Artillery and Engineering School . From 1897 he taught at the Royal War Academy in Berlin, from 1901 as a regular professor. Since 1894 he also taught Russian at the Oriental Seminary at the University of Berlin , and from 1905 to 1916 at the Seminar for Eastern European History. In 1908 he became an honorary member of the Allemannia Berlin fraternity , to which his son also belonged. In 1909 he received his doctorate from the University of Graz .

His son was the administrative lawyer Eduard Schalfejew (1888–1962).

Honors

Russian Order of Saint Stanislaus , 3rd class
Order of Philip the Magnanimous , Grand Cross, Commander 3rd class

Publications

A. Kol'cov's popular poetry and Russian folk poetry. Dissertation, University of Graz 1909 (handwritten)
A. Kol'cov's popular poetry and Russian folk poetry . A literary historical investigation. With two supplements: 1. Editions of Kol'cov's works. 2. Translations of Kol'cov's popular songs . Duncker, Berlin 1910.

literature

Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , p. 191.
Csaba János Kenéz, Peter Wörster : Archives on the history of Liv, Estonia and Courland in the document collection of the Herder Institute . Marburg 2000, p. 42 ( digitized version ).
Peter Wörster: Russians - Baltic Germans - Prussians. On the life and work of the Slavist Peter Schalfejew (1858–1916) . In: Yearbook of the Baltic Germans Vol. 49, 2001, pp. 252–260.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , p. 191.

personal data
SURNAME	Schalfejew, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-Baltic Slavist
DATE OF BIRTH	February 13, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH	Fossenberg, Livonia
DATE OF DEATH	February 4, 1916
Place of death	Berlin

[:0-1] Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , p. 191.