Vladimir Ivanovich Dal
Wladimir Ivanovich Dal ( Russian Владимир Иванович Даль , also Woldemar Ferdinand Dahl ; * November 10th July / November 22nd 1801 greg. In Lugansk ; † September 22nd July / October 4, 1872 greg. In Moscow ) was one of the largest Russian lexicographer and author of the most extensive dictionary of the Russian language (Russ. Tolkowy slowar shiwogo welikorusskogo jasyka , in German: dictionary of meanings of the living Greater Russian language ).
biography
His father was the Danish linguist and doctor Johann Christian Dahl, who had studied at the universities of Copenhagen , Jena and Erlangen . His mother was Julia Adelaide, b. Freytag, who came from a Russian-German family and was a gifted musician and singer. Vladimir Dal served in the Russian naval forces from 1814 to 1826.
In 1826 Dal began studying medicine at Dorpat University . In the battles of the Russo-Turkish War (1828-1829) and the Polish November Uprising (1831) he distinguished himself as a brilliant military doctor .
After his marriage in 1833, Dal was transferred to Orenburg as a civil servant for special tasks with the military governor Vasily Alexejewitsch Perowski . In 1841, on the recommendation of Vasily Perowski, Dal became his brother's brother Lew Alexejewitsch Perowski's secretary in St. Petersburg .
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Dal published some short stories from 1832 onwards . He was acquainted with Alexander Pushkin , whom he treated as a doctor in 1837. In 1838, Dal became a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences .
Dals main work, a lexicon in four volumes with over 30,000 lemmas, appeared at the expense of the patrons from 1863 to 1866.
The UNESCO declared the year 2000 as the International Year of Vladimir Dal.
Web links
- Vladimir Ivanovich Dal (Russian)
- Online version of Dal's dictionary ( memento from December 21, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- Literature by and about Wladimir Iwanowitsch Dal in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Модестов Н. Н .: Владимир Иванович Даль в Оренбурге . In: Труды Оренбургской учёной архивной комиссии . No. 27 , 1913.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dal, Vladimir Ivanovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dahl, Vladimir Ivanovich; Даль, Владимир Иванович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian lexicographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 22, 1801 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lugansk |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 4, 1872 |
| Place of death | Moscow |