Izmail Sreznevsky
Izmail Ivanovich Sreznevsky (
folklorist and writer
.
Life
His father,
Kharkov University. It was in Kharkov that Sreznevsky graduated in philology (in 1829) and gained a professorship (in 1842). He was a notable figure in the Ukrainian literary revival and compiled several multi-volume anthologies of local folklore, including Zaporozhian Antiquities.[1]
In 1839–1842 he undertook a tour through every major library of Central and Eastern Europe with a view toward consulting the oldest extant Slavic manuscripts.
In 1847 Sreznevsky moved to St. Petersburg, where he applied himself to the task of preparing a comprehensive dictionary of the
Kiev Fragments (in 1874). Sreznevsky's pièce de résistance, The Materials for a Dictionary of the Old Russian Language, though incomplete, was published posthumously in three volumes (1893–1903) and was reprinted with an addendum in 1912, 1958, and 1988. It was superseded only with the publication of a 24-volume academic dictionary in 1975–1999.[2]
Sreznevsky was the founding father of the Russian Language Department of the
Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Nikolay Dobrolyubov, and Vladimir Lamansky
(who published his biography in 1890).
Family
- World Figure Skating Championship(1896, St. Petersburg) and authored the first Russian reference book on photography (1883).
- Tartu University) in 1894–1918 and was in charge of the Kiev Meteorological Observatoryin 1919–1934.
- Vsevolod Sreznevsky (1869–1936) was an authority on Slavic paleography that scoured Russia's northern regions in search of manuscripts and drew up a detailed account of the manuscripts held by the Russian Academy of Sciences Library (1910–1930, vol. 1–3).
References
- ISBN 0-8020-8390-0.
- ^ The Encyclopaedia of The Lay of Igor's Campaign, vol. 1–5. St. Petersburg, 1995. Volume 5. Pages 46-47.
External links
- (in Russian) Sreznevsky's Materials for the Dictionary of the Old Russian Language on the Basis of Written Records
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