Background
A.Budzilovich was born in the village of Komatava of the Нrodna Province (now it in the IНrodna district) to the family of a Uniate priest.
A Budzilovich died and was buried in St. Petersburg.
Budilovich
A.Budzilovich was born in the village of Komatava of the Нrodna Province (now it in the IНrodna district) to the family of a Uniate priest.
A Budzilovich died and was buried in St. Petersburg.
He had primary education in Zhirovetsk religious school, after it he entered the Lithuania seminary. But he didn't wish to continue the education in theological field.
After graduating from the Lithuanian theological seminary, he entered St. Petersburg University. In 1867, he completed successfully with a gold medal and the candidate of science degree the studies at the history and philology faculty and was invited to stay at the University for training to get an academic status of a professor in Slavic philology.
In 1867 A.Budzilovich participated in the Slavic congress in Moscow and since then became involved in Slavic politics: he participated efficiently in the activities of St. Petersburg Slavic Charitable Society, contributed to the development of V.I. Lomansky’s theory of the cultural unity of Greek and Slavic world, supported the idea of uniting all Slavs under the aegis of Russia.
The public activities of A.Budzilovich did not prevent him from teaching and researching. From 1859 to 1872 he headed the chair of Slavic dialects at St. Petersburg Theological Academy and since 1871 he headed a similar chair at St. Petersburg Institute of History and Philology and in 1875, after his return from abroad, he became a professor at the chair of Russian and Slavic philology of Nezhin History and Philology Institute in Ukraine. A.Budzilovich continued his research successfully and he was the first among Slavonic scholars to study the Slavic parent material culture and territory. In 1879 he got an academic degree of Dcx-tor in Slavonic philology. From 1881 he worked at the University of Warsaw at the chair of the Russian and Church- Slavonic languages, where he w as apjx)inted the clean, and for some time he was an acting rector. In 1882 A.Budzilovich was elected corresponding member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences and in 1892 he was appointed rector of Yurvev ( now Tartu) University. During the ten years when A.Budzilovich headed the University 10 chairs were set up, Russian replaced German as the language of instruction, of official correspondence and record-keeping. Russian professors were invited to work at the University. An Orthodox church was opened in the main premises of the University. A.Budzilovich got the permission to admit graduates of theological seminaries and to provide additional grants and other types of financial assistance to students. In 1892, A.Budzilovich edited the journal Slavonic Survey. It was the period when there were founded famous schools of studies in humanities that the Universitv of Tartu todav is
A.Budzilovich's major works include On Literary Unity of Slavic Peoples, published in St. Petersburg in 1877, A Few Thoughts on Greco- Slavic Xature of Activity of Cyril and Methodius and Common Slavic Ranked with Other Common Languages of Ancient and Modern Europe. The latter two papers saw the light in Warsaw in 1885 and 1892 accordingly.
The managerial ability of A.Budzilovich was appreciated as he was appointed member of the council at the ministry of public education. He founded the Galician-Russian Association; since!907 he was the editor of Moshovskye vedomsti (Moscow Gazette).
Whatever the differences on other matters of internal policy of the late, we can not forget all that BUDILOVICH done in reference to Russia and the Slavic world drive us to his liking. It is impossible not to appreciate the qualities of mind and feelings that can never be blocked by political differences, to appreciate the sincere, warm faith in the late Slavic. "Vividly is determined BUDILOVICH familiarize figure on the administrative field, and the most characteristic for him is ten years of principalship in St. George (1892 - 1901) with the persecution of all German, the imposition of "national principles" in a government school, he was working on
He travelled a lot, visiting in 1868 France and Germany and going in 1872-1875 to Austria-Hungary, Germany and Turkey. The purpose of his travels was the study of Slavic dialects, as well as the ethnography and literary heritage of Slavic tribes that lived in the territory of those countries.
As a member of the Board of the Ministry of National education, action against the Union of academic institutions of higher education teachers in 1905, finally, the foundation of Galician-Russian society and the editorship in the "Moscow News" from the end of 1907
A.Budzilovich’s contemporaries pointed to his independent yet romantic nature, his fascination by ‘line utopianism' of the Old Slavophilism. The introduction of the Slavic world to Russia and the formation of understanding the Slavic unity can be regarded as the main outcome of A.Budzilovich’s versatile activities.
Quotes from others about the person
He is straightforward, a good orator and debater, has certain plans, despite the "belligerence" of his Slavophilism, Budilovich is a romantic, maintaining this link with the old Slavophilism and its beautiful utopian. These features are caused respect for him from the political opponents. "All sympathetic political liberation and cultural development of the Slavic peoples with a heavy heart to take the news of the death of BUDILOVICH - wrote S. Kotlyarevsky in "Russian Gazette".