Viktor Ivanovich Grigorovich
Viktor Ivanovich Grigorovich ( Ukrainian Віктор Іванович Григорович / Wiktor Iwanowytsch Hryhorowytsch , Russian Виктор Иванович Григорович ; born April 30 . Jul / 12. May 1815 greg. , Balta , Podolia Governorate , Russian Empire ; † December 19 jul. / December 31 1876 greg. Elizabethgrad , Cherson Governorate , Russian Empire) was a Ukrainian historian and Slavist . He taught in Kazan , Moscow and Odessa and made great contributions to researching early Old Slavic manuscripts.
Life
Viktor Iwanowitsch Grigorowitsch was born in 1815 as the son of a Ukrainian father and a Polish mother in Balta in what was then the governorate of Podolia. He studied history and taught Slavic history and literature at the University of Kazan from 1839. In 1845 and 1846 he undertook extensive study trips to the Balkans as far as European Turkey , from where he brought back some newly discovered Old Slavonic manuscripts ( Chludow Psalter ). From 1848 to 1849 he taught in Moscow. Then he returned to Kazan. In 1851 he became a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg .
In 1865 he became professor of Slavic studies at the New Russian University in Odessa and the first dean of the Faculty of History and Philology. In 1876 he died in Elisabethgrad (now Kropywnyzkyj) in what was then the Cherson Governorate (now the Ukrainian Oblast of Odessa).
Web links
- Григорович Віктор Іванович (Ukrainian)
- Григорович, Виктор Иванович Russian Academy of Sciences (Russian)
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| SURNAME | Grigorowitsch, Viktor Ivanovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Григорович, Віктор Іванович (Ukrainian); Grigorovich, Viktor (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian historian and Slavist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 12, 1815 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Balta , Podolia Governorate |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 31, 1876 |
| Place of death | Elisabethgrad , Kherson Governorate |