Vasily Evdokimowitsch Adodurow

Vasily Evdokimowitsch Adodurow

Wassili Evdokimowitsch Adodurow ( Russian Василий Евдокимович Адодуров ; * March 15 ^July / March 26,  1709 ^greg. In Novgorod ; † November 5 ^jul. / November 16,  1780 ^greg. In St. Petersburg ) was a Russian mathematician , philologist and University professor .

Life

Adodurow came from an old noble family . He attended the school of the Lichud brothers in Novgorod, then the Academia Slavo-Graeco-Latina of the Lichud brothers in Moscow (1723–1726) and the high school at the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg (1726). In 1727 he began studying at the University of the Academy of Sciences . 1728 showed his special talent for mathematics , which Daniel Bernoulli taught. In 1731, a German- Latin- Russian dictionary was published on the basis of the lexicon bipartitum latino-germanicum et germanico-latinum in quo latinitas prisca et pura ... ex probatissimis autoribus methodo perspicua explicatur by Ehrenreich Weismann with a short Russian grammar by Adodurow.

1733 Adodurow was adjunct at the chair for higher mathematics and translator at the Academy of Sciences. From 1735 he participated with Vasily Kirillowitsch Trediakowski in studies of the Russian language of the Academy of Sciences. In particular, he translated works by Leonhard Euler and Georg Wolfgang Krafft's Experimentorum physicorum brevis descriptio . In 1736 he became the tutor of the school graduates who had been sent from Moscow to study in St. Petersburg, including Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonossow . In 1737 he wrote the foundations of the Russian language . In 1740 his Russian Grammar appeared, one of the first grammars for the vernacular as opposed to Church Slavonic .

In 1741 Adodurow moved to the Heroldmeister-Kontor and was finally Heroldmeister (1753–1755). During this time he led virtually the Russian Heraldry and created hundreds of coats of arms for raised to the peerage people, including more than 300 Preobrazhentsi body-guards , which the Empress Elisabeth had helped to the throne.

In 1744, at the suggestion of Count Alexei Grigorjewitsch Rasumowski , Adodurow was appointed Russian teacher to the heir apparent to the throne, Princess Sophie Auguste Friederike von Anhalt-Zerbst . 1749 married Adodurow Jelisaweta Dmitrijewna Murawewa, daughter of a Poruchik of the Preobrazhensk body guard regiment with an estate with 1,500 serfs as dowry .

In connection with the high treason trial against Alexei Petrovich Bestuschew-Ryumin , Adodurov was arrested in 1758 and finally exiled to Orenburg . In 1762, the former Princess Sophie and current Empress Catherine II brought him back from Orenburg and made him President of the Manufactory College (1762–1764) and curator of Moscow University (1762–1778), where he gave mathematics lectures. In 1774 he became a senator and in 1778 an honorary member of the Academy of Sciences.

Adodurov's grave is in the Lazarus Cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Monastery in St. Petersburg. On his 300th birthday, the heraldry artists' guild donated the Adodurow Prize.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Ададуровы (в старину Ододуровы) . In: Brockhaus-Efron . tape I , 1890, p. 156 ( [1] accessed November 15, 2017).
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Адодуров, Василий Евдокимович . In: Русский биографический словарь . tape 1 , 1896, p. 79–81 ( [2] accessed November 15, 2017).
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Necropolis of the St. Alexander Nevsky Lavra of the Holy Trinity: Adadurov Vasily Evdokimovich (accessed November 15, 2017).
4. ↑ Weismann, Erich; Adodurov, Vasilij Evdokimovič: German-Latin and Russian lexicon, including the initial reasons for the Russian language . St. Petersburg 1731.
5. ↑ VA Adodurov: Foundations of Russian language ili Pervye osnovanija rossijskogo jazyka: formirovanie russkoj akademičeskoj grammatičeskoj tradicii . Nauka , St. Petersburg 2014.
6. ↑ Assumption BA : Первая русская грамматика на родном языке: (Доломоносовский период отечественной русистики, издание грамматики Адодурова) . Nauka, Moscow 1975.