Aleksandr Ivanovich Yatsimirsky (russian: Александр Иванович Яцимирский; 1873 — 1925, Leningrad) was a philologist- slavistic and a specialist in history of Romania and Moldavia. He was from the Russian Empire. He was one of the authors of the

Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary The ''Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopaedic Dictionary'' (Russian: Энциклопедический словарь Брокгауза и Ефрона, abbr. ЭСБЕ, tr. ; 35 volumes, small; 86 volumes, large) is a comprehensive multi-volume ...

Biography

Alexander Yatsimirsky was born in 1873. He graduated from Imperial Moscow University. For his study "''

Gregory Tsamblak Gregory Tsamblak or Grigorij Camblak ( bg, Григорий Цамблак, sr-Cyr, Григорије Цамблак; c. 1365–1420) was a Bulgarian writer and cleric. He was the pretended Metropolitan of Lithuania between 1413 and 1420. A Bulga ...

''" ( St. Petersburg, 1904, published by the Russian Academy of Sciences) Yatsimirsky received a doctorate in Slavic philology, and in 1905 he got a positive response to the Lomonosov Prize Committee. In 1906—1913 Yatsimirsky was Privat-docent of the Slavonic Philology Department of St. Petersburg University. From 1913 to 1918 he was a Professor of the University of Warsaw (which was in 1915 evacuated to

Rostov-on-Don Rostov-on-Don ( rus, Ростов-на-Дону, r=Rostov-na-Donu, p=rɐˈstof nə dɐˈnu) is a port city and the administrative centre of Rostov Oblast and the Southern Federal District of Russia. It lies in the southeastern part of the East Eu ...

), since 1918 he held the post of the Rector of the Don Archaeological Institute, and since 1922 he also was a Professor of Rostov University. Among his main works are "''The inventory of old Slavonic and Russian manuscripts in the collection of

Pyotr Shchukin Pyotr Ivanovich Shchukin (1853 – 12 October 1912) was an art collector who built an important collection of Russian ancient art and artifacts and owned several Impressionism, impressionist masterpieces. Early life and family Pyotr Ivanovich ...

''" (Moscow, 1896 and 1897); "''From Slavic manuscripts. Texts and notes. I-V''"(Moscow, 1898); "''Slavonic and Russian Manuscripts in Romanian Libraries''" (St. Petersburg, 1905, ed., Academy of Sciences); "''From the history of Slavic manuscripts of the 15th-17th centuries in Moldavia and Wallachia''"(St. Petersburg, 1906); "''From the history of Slavic sermons in Moldavia''" (St. Petersburg, 1906); "''Small texts and notes about old Slavonic and Russian literature''" (St. Petersburg, 1907). Yatsimirsky also wrote a number of articles in the

, mainly devoted to Polish literature. Some articles of Yatsimirsky were translated to Bulgarian,

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, Czech and Polish languages.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Yatsimirsky, Aleksandr 1873 births 1925 deaths Academic staff of Southern Federal University Philologists from the Russian Empire Imperial Moscow University alumni Academic staff of Saint Petersburg State University Academic staff of the University of Warsaw