Rudolf Minzloff
Carl Rudolf Minzloff , Russian Рудольф Иванович Минцлов (also Münzloff; Müntzloff ; born November 6 . Jul / 18th November 1811 greg. In Konigsberg ; d. 31 October 1883 in St. Petersburg ) was a German Imperial Russian Councilor, Senior Librarian , Professor in St. Petersburg and writer.
Life
Minzloff was since September 21, 1860 a member of the Pegnese Flower Order (language and literature society). Minzloff studied philosophy at the University of Königsberg (1829) and came to St. Petersburg immediately after graduating. There he taught German at the Alexander Lyceum and later became the tutor of the future emperor Alexander III. and his brothers. From 1847 he was employed as senior librarian in the Rossica department of the Imperial Public Library . He held this position until his death in 1883. During this activity he founded the department for incunabula, translated works by Pushkin, Gogol and Grigorovic into German and worked for the St. Petersburg newspaper .
In 1847 he became a corresponding member of the Society for the History and Archeology of the Baltic Provinces of Russia .
Publications
- Contributions to the Livonian moral history of the 18th century
- Dante's hell of lovers
- The old German manuscripts of the Imperial Public Library in St. Petersburg
- Literary history of the peoples of antiquity
- Marian songs from the fourteenth century
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ GF Hartung: Academic memory book for those who moved into Königsberg University between 1817 and 1844, Königsberg 1844
- ↑ http://www.slavistik.uni-potsdam.de/petersburg/minzloff.html
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Minzloff, Rudolf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Minzloff, Carl Rudolf (full name); Минцлов, Рудольф Иванович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German imperial Russian court advisor, senior librarian, professor in St. Petersburg and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 18, 1811 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Koenigsberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 31, 1883 |
| Place of death | St. Petersburg |