Vsevolod Sechkareff

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Vsevolod Setschkareff (originally Всеволод Михайлович Сечкарёв / Vsevolod Michailowitsch Setschkarev, also Vsevolod Sechkarev ; born April 8, 1914 in Charkow ; † December 1, 1998 in Belmont (Massachusetts) ) was a Slavist who worked in Germany and the USA.

Setschkareff, the son of a Russian father and a German mother, came to Germany with his mother in 1925 and from 1934 studied Slavic, English and Philosophy at the University of Berlin . In 1938 he did his doctorate there under Max Vasmer on Schelling in Russia and became a lecturer for Russian. During the Second World War he worked as an army translator for Serbo-Croatian in the Reich Ministry of Aviation, and from November 1944 to April he worked as an assistant at the University of Graz .

After the war he lived in Bavaria and worked as an interpreter and English teacher. In April 1947, he became a lecturer in Slavic languages at the University of Bonn , where he met with a thesis on the seals of the Croatian poet himself in February 1948 Ivan Gundulić habilitated ( The seals Gundulićs and her poetic style, a contribution to the study of the literary baroque, Bonn Athenaeum, 1952 ). In 1950 he became an adjunct professor of Slavic Studies at the University of Bonn , and from 1952–53 he also represented the newly established Chair of Slavic Studies at the University of Cologne . In the spring of 1953 he was appointed full professor for Slavic studies at the University of Hamburg . From there he went to Harvard in the fall of 1957 , where he worked until his retirement.

Setschkareff's focus was on researching classical Russian literature of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Work (selection)

  • An overview of the history of Russian literature . 163 pages, Athenäum, Bonn 1949
  • NV Gogol . Life and work. 192 pages. Verlag Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1953
  • NS Leskov . His life and his work. 170 pages. Verlag Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1959
  • Alexander Pushkin . His life and his work. 204 pages. Verlag Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1963
  • Ivan Goncharov . His life and his works. 339 pages. Jal-Verlag, Würzburg 1974. (= Colloquium Slavicum; 4) ISBN 3-7778-0091-0

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