Nikolai Anderson
Nikolai Anderson | |
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University of Kazan | |
| Thesis | Studien zur Vergleichung der ugrofinnischen und indogermanischen Sprachen (1879) |
| Academic advisors | Leo Meyer |
Nikolai Karl Adolf Anderson (24 September (6 October) 1845 in
philologist who lived in the Russian Empire. He specialized in comparative linguistics of Finno-Ugric languages.[3]
Life
Anderson was born in the village of Kulina, Estonia, close to the town of Wesenberg. After receiving a private education in
Comparative philology.[6] While at university he became interested in Finno-Ugric languages
and quickly became an expert in the field.
In 1871 Anderson worked as an hourly paid teacher at the Gymnasium in Dorpat before taking up a post as teacher for classical languages at the Gymnasium in Minsk (now in Belarus) in 1872,[5] but he continued his studies of Finno-Ugric languages in his spare time. In 1874, he got married and soon started a family.[3] Nikolai Anderson's three sons were Wilhelm Anderson (born 1880),[7] Walter Anderson (born 1885),[8] and Oskar Anderson (born 1887),[9] who all went on to choose academic careers.
In 1876 Anderson submitted the results of his research, comparing Finno-Ugric and
Comparative Linguistics.[6] In 1892 his mentor Leo Meyer nominated Anderson for an honorary membership of the Learned Estonian Society (Gelehrte Estnische Gesellschaft),[6] a corresponding member of which he had been since 1871,[10]
which was granted to Anderson in the same year.
In January 1894 Anderson was offered a professorship in
University of Kazan (Russia) to replace Mihkel Veske,[11] which he accepted, as this allowed him to take up an academic career that would allow him more time for his research. As a professor he had the rank of Статский советник (State Councillor), meaning that he held personal nobility in the Imperial Russian hierarchy.[6]
In 1898 Anderson fell ill with a nervous disorder and was hospitalized for several months in
Works
In his work, Anderson not only compared different
genetic relationship between Finno-Ugric and Indo-Germanic languages, making him one of the first scholars to investigate possible links between these two language families.[13] At the time of his death, Anderson was the only professor for Finno-Ugric languages in the Russian Empire.[10]
- Anderson, Nikolai (1876), Probe einer vergleichenden Grammatik der ugrofinnischen und indogermanischen Sprachen
- Anderson, Nikolai (1891) [1879], Studien zur Vergleichung der ugrofinnischen und indogermanischen Sprachen (Thesis), H. Laakmann (hdl:10062/5758
- Anderson, Nikolai (1893), Wandlungen der anlautenden dentalen Spirans im Ostjakischen, Mémoires de l'Académie impériale des sciences de St.-Pétersbourg, St. Petersburg)
Honours and awards
Imperial Russian Order of Saint Stanislaus, 2nd class (awarded 1885) [2]- Order of St. Anna, 2nd class (awarded 1889) [2]
Imperial Russian Order of Saint Vladimir, 4th class (awarded 1904) [2]
References
- ^ a b "Inland", Rigasche Zeitung (in German), vol. 38, no. 2, Riga, 25 March 1881, archived from the original on 6 October 2014, retrieved 6 September 2015
- ^ a b c d e f g "Формулярный списокь (service record): Николай Андерсон (Nikolai Anderson)", Oskar Nikolaevich Anderson (1907-1912) (in Russian), St. Petersburg: Archives of the Petrograd Polytechnical Institute of the Emperor Peter the Great in the Central State Historical Archives of St. Petersburg, pp. 9–18, archived from the original on 5 March 2016, retrieved 15 June 2016
- ^ a b c d e "Anderson, Nikolai Karl Adolf", BBLD – Baltisches biografisches Lexikon digital, Göttingen: Baltische Historische Kommission, 2012
- ^ ISBN 9789949372959
- ^ a b Hasselblatt, A.; Otto, G. (1889), Album academicum der Kaiserlichen Universität Dorpat, Dorpat: Verlag C. Mattiesen, p. 586
- ^ hdl:10062/20907
- ^ Kuusk, P.; Martinson, I. (1997), "Tartu astrofüüsik Wilhelm Anderson", Akadeemia, 2: 358–375, retrieved 9 March 2013
- ^ "Anderson, Walter Arthur Alexander", BBLD – Baltisches biografisches Lexikon digital, Göttingen: Baltische Historische Kommission, 2012
- ^ Seneta, Eugene William (2010). "Oskar Anderson". StatProb: The Encyclopedia Sponsored by Statistics and Probability Societies. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. Archived from the original on 29 October 2013.
- ^ a b Bernhard Munkácsi (1905), "Nikolai Anderson", Keleti Szemle, vol. 6, pp. 180–181
- Emil Nestor Setälä (1905), "† Nikolai Anderson", Anzeiger der Finnisch-ugrischen Forschungen, vol. 5, pp. 187–189
- ^ Рафикова (Rafikova), Г. (G.); Ибрагимова (Ibrahimova), Ф. (F.) (2016). "Биографика Казанского университета: Андерсоны (Kazan University Biography: Anderson)". «Гасырлар авазы – Эхо веков» (in Russian). 2016 1/2.
- ^ Pedersen, Holger (1931), Linguistic Science in the Nineteenth Century: Methods and Results, translated by John Webster Spargo, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press
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