Pyotr Semjonowitsch Kogan

Pyotr Semjonowitsch Kogan

Pyotr Semyonovich Kogan ( Russian Пётр Семёнович Коган ; born June 1 ^{. Jul} / 13. June  1872 ^greg. In Lida , † 2. May 1932 in Moscow ) was a Russian philologist , literary critic , translator and university professor .

Life

Kogan, the son of a Jewish doctor , attended high school in Mogilew and then studied at the historical and philological faculty of Moscow University with a degree in 1896. During his studies, he was enthusiastic about Marxist ideas and polemicized in publications against Juli Issajewitsch Aichenwald and Mikhail Osipowitsch Gerschenson and other. With Konstantin Dmitrijewitsch Balmont , Valeri Jakowlewitsch Brjussow , Wladimir Maximowitsch Fritsche , Konstantin Antonowitsch Chlebowski, Alexander Antonowitsch Kurssinski and Wladimir Michailowitsch Schuljatikow , Kogan founded the Circle of Friends of Western European Literature in 1894 . Then he taught at various schools in Moscow, including the school of the Moscow Philharmonic Society. He converted to the Russian Orthodox Church in order to become a professor . However, the national education minister Nikolai Pavlovich Bogolepow did not allow him to prepare for a professorship against the law.

In 1909 Kogan went to St. Petersburg . In 1910 he was elected as a private lecturer at the chair for Germanic - Romance philology at the University of St. Petersburg .

In 1917 Kogan returned to Moscow and taught at Moscow University after the October Revolution . In 1921 he became professor of Germanic-Romance philology there. He also became President of the State Academy of Art Sciences of the RSFSR in Moscow, founded in 1921 , which pursued similar goals as the Bauhaus and existed until 1930 (Vice-Presidents: Wassily Kandinsky , Nikolai Kirjakowitsch Piksanow , Gustav Speth ; Board of Directors: Kogan (Chair), Piksanow (Vice-Chair ), Anatoli Wassiljewitsch Bakuschinski , AM Rodionow, Leonid Leonidowitsch Sabanejew , Wladimir Maximowitsch Fritsche, Speth, Nikolai Efimowitsch Efros ). He was an employee of the People's Commissariat for Education of the RSFSR .

Kogan translated works by John Ruskin , Hippolyte Taine, and others into Russian . He wrote for various important magazines. He wrote articles on classicism for Brockhaus-Efron , Gotthold Ephraim Lessing , Karl Gutzkow , Henrik Ibsen , Hermann Sudermann and others. His main work was the history of Russian literature .

Kogan was married to the translator and writer Nadezhda Alexandrovna Nolle-Kogan. Her son was the writer Alexander Petrovich Nolle .

Kogan was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery.

Web links

• Literature by and about Pyotr Semjonowitsch Kogan in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} КО́ГАН, Петр Семенович . In: Brief literary encyclopedia . tape 3 . Советская энциклопедия, Moscow 1962 ( feb-web.ru [accessed September 21, 2019]).
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Elektronnaja evreiskaja enziklopedija: Коган Петр (accessed on September 21, 2019).
3. ↑ ^{a b} University of Moscow: Коган Пётр Семёнович (accessed on September 21, 2019).
4. ↑ ^{a b} Novodevichy Cemetery: Коган Пётр Семёнович (accessed on September 21, 2019).
5. ↑ The language of things. Philosophy and cultural studies in the German-Russian transfer of ideas in the 1920s (accessed on September 22, 2019).
6. ↑ PS Kogan: Istorija russkoj literatury: s drevnejšich vremen do našich dnej (v samom sžatom izloženii) (reprint of the original edition Moskva, Leningrad, Molodaja Gvardija, 1928) . Central antiquariat of the GDR , Leipzig 1983.