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BUSLAEV, FEDOR IVANOVICH (1818—1898)

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BUSLAEV, FEDOR IVANOVICH (1818—1898) , See also:Russian author and philologist, was See also:born on the 13th of See also:April 1818 at Kerensk, where his See also:father was secretary of the See also:district tribunal. He was educated at See also:Penza and See also:Moscow University. At the end of his academical course, 1838, he accompanied the See also:family of See also:Count S. G. Strogonov on a tour through See also:Italy, See also:Germany and See also:France, occupying himself principally with the study of classical antiquities. On his return he was appointed assistant See also:professor of Russian literature at the university of Moscow. A study of See also:Jacob See also:Grimm's See also:great See also:dictionary had already directed the See also:attention of the See also:young professor to the See also:historical development of the Russian See also:language, and the See also:fruit of his studies was the See also:book On the Teaching of the See also:National Language (Moscow, 1844 and 1867), which even now has its value. In 1848 he produced his See also:work On the See also:Influence of•Christianity on the See also:Slavonic Language, which, though subsequently superseded by See also:Franz von See also:Miklosich's Christliche Terminologie, is still one of the most striking See also:dissertations on the development of the Slavonic See also:languages. In this work Buslaev proves that See also:long before the 'See also:age of See also:Cyril and See also:Methodius the Slavonic languages had been subject to See also:Christian influences. In 1855 he published Palaeographical and Philological Materials for the See also:History of the Slavonic Alphabets, and in 1858 See also:Essay towards an Historical See also:Grammar of the Russian See also:Tongue, which, despite some trivial defects, is still a See also:standard work, abounding with See also:rich material for students, carefully collected from an immense quantity of See also:ancient records and monuments. In See also:close connexion with this work in his Historical Chrestomathy of the See also:Church-Slavonic and Old Russian See also:Tongues (Moscow, 1861). Buslaev also interested himself in Russian popular See also:poetry and old Russian See also:art, and the result of his labours is enshrined in Historical Sketches of Russian Popular Literature and Art (St See also:Petersburg, 1861), a very valuable collection of articles and monographs, in which .the author shows himself a worthy and faithful See also:disciple of Grimm.

His Popular Poetry (St Petersburg, 1887) is a valuable supplement to the Sketches. In 1881 he was appointed professor of Russian literature at Moscow, and three years later published his Annotated See also:

Apocalypse with an See also:atlas of 400 plates, illustrative of ancient Russian art. See S. D. Sheremetev, Memoir of F. I. Buslaev (Moscow, 1899). (R. N.

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