Wassili Wassiljewitsch Grigoryev

Vasily Vasilyevich Grigoriev ( Russian Василий Васильевич Григорьев * March 15 ^{. Jul} / 27. March  1816 ^greg. In Saint Petersburg , † December 19 ^{. Jul} / 31 December  1881 ^{. Greg} in Pavlovsk ) was a Russian Orientalist and archaeologist .

Life

Vasily Vasilyevich Grigoriev attended from 1831 to 1834, the University of St. Petersburg, then joined the Institute of Oriental Languages, but he left already in 1836 to attend the University lecturer of Persian to be. In 1838 he received the professorship of oriental languages ​​at the Lyceum in Odessa , where he helped found the Society for History and Antiquity . In 1844 he moved back to Saint Petersburg and edited the Interior Ministry's journal for seven years . In 1852 he was added to the governor general of Orenburg , where he headed the upper administration of the Orenburg Kyrgyz from 1854 to 1863 . In 1863 he became professor of the history of the Orient in the Oriental Faculty of St. Petersburg University.

As a student, Grigoryev translated Chondemir's history of the Mongols into Russian (Petersburg 1834). In 1876 he published a collection of journal articles under the title Rossija i Asia in Petersburg. In the memoirs of the Archaeological Society appeared On the Patan coins of India, found in the ruins of Sarai . On behalf of the Geographical Society, he undertook a Russian processing of that part of Carl Ritter's geography , which includes Kabulistan, Kafiristan and eastern Turkestan (delivery 1 and 2, Petersburg 1869–1873). Grigoryev was also involved in the new arrangement of William Marsden's Numismata orientalia . In 1879 he became a privy councilor and chief of press in Russia. He died in late 1881 at the age of 65.

literature

• Wassili Wassiljewitsch Grigoryev . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 7, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 739.