Victor Jernstedt

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Victor Jernstedt

Victor Karl Jernstedt ( Russian Виктор Карлович Ернштедт , born December 2 . Jul / 14. December  1854 greg. In St. Petersburg ; † August 8 jul. / 21st August  1902 greg. ) Was a Russian classical philologist and Byzantinist .

Life

Victor Jernstedt's family came from Sweden. He attended the Wiedemann private school and studied from 1871 to 1875 at the State University of Saint Petersburg , where he was influenced in particular by the philologists Karl Lugebil and Feodor Feodorowitsch Sokolow ; he was also in contact with August Nauck . After completing his studies, Jernstedt went on an extensive educational and research trip to England, where he studied Greek manuscripts in the libraries in London , Oxford and Cambridge . In doing so, he collected rich material on the tradition and textual criticism of the Attic speakers . After his return to St. Petersburg he taught Latin and Greek at the Progymnasium and from 1877 at the university. In 1880 he became a study on the history of transmission of the speeches of Andokides , Isaeus , Dinarchus , antiphon and Lycurgus the master's degree . Shortly afterwards he published a critical edition of the speeches of the Antiphon.

Further research trips took Jernstedt to Italy and Greece, where he acquired knowledge of archeology and epigraphy and dealt with the Byzantine and modern Greek language and culture. As a result, his research interests shifted more and more to Byzantine Studies . Back in St. Petersburg Jernstedt was in 1883 appointed as Lecturer in 1884 and an associate professor of Greek, after all, after his promotion to Dr. phil. (1891) as full professor.

Jernstedt also developed its effect beyond the university circles. From 1891 he was editor of the ancient language section of the Journal of the Ministry of Public Enlightenment and secretary of the Imperial Russian Archaeological Society . May 1, 1893, appointed him Imperial Academy of Sciences for adjuncts , on December 5, 1898. Extraordinary Member.

Victor Jernstedt published several essays on Greek literature (Attic speakers and comedy: Menander ) as well as critical editions, including the Strategikon by Kekänkeos (1896) and Michael Andreopoulos ' translation of the stories of Sindbad (posthumously 1912).

His son was the coptologist Pjotr ​​Jernstedt (1890-1966).

Fonts (selection)

  • Antiphontis orationes . Edidit Victor Jernstedt. Saint Petersburg 1880
  • Cecronomi Strategicon et incerti scriptoris De officiis regiis libellus. Accedit exemplum codicis phototypicum . Ediderunt B. Wassiliewsky and Victor Karl Jernstedt. Saint Petersburg 1896. Reprinted in Amsterdam 1965
  • Victoris Jernstedt Opuscula. Сборникъ Статей По Классической Филологіи В. К. Ернштедта . Saint Petersburg 1907 (with picture)
  • Michaelis Andreopuli Liber Syntipae . Edidit V. Jernstedt. Accedit exemplum codicis Mosquensis phototypicum. Saint Petersburg 1912

literature

  • Grigol Tsereteli : Памяти Виктора Карловича Ернштедта . Saint Petersburg 1903
  • EK: Viktor Jernstedt . Byzantine magazine . Volume 12 (1903), p. 448
  • Peter Schreiner : From Letter to Friendship. Viktor Karlovič Jernstedt's correspondence with Karl Krumbacher (1893–1902) . In: Вспомогательные исторические дисциплины . Volume 30 (2007), pp. 396-411

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personal data
SURNAME Jernstedt, Victor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jernstedt, Victor Karl (full name); Ернштедт, Виктор Карлович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian classical philologist and Byzantinist
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 1902
Place of death St. Petersburg