Background
EPIMAKH-SHIPILA, Bronislav was born on September 4, 1859.
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Bronislav Ignat’ycvich EPIMAKH-SHIPILA
Edit ProfileBelorussian linguist and literary historian
Education
Graduate Polish secondary school in Riga. Graduate Classical Languages Department, History and Philology Faculty, Saint St. Petersburg University.
Career
From late 1880’s professor, Saint St. Petersburg University. Also lecturer, Saint St. Petersburg Roman-Catholic Theological Academy and teacher, Chemyayev’s General Education Courses. 1889-1824 simultaneously deputy director, Library of Saint St. Petersburg University.
From 1925 member and ed, from 1927 director, Commission for Compiling Dictionary of Living Belorussian Language, Minsk Institute of Belorussian Culture. From 1928 member. Humanities Department, Belorussian Academy of Sciences. Besides teaching classical languages at Saint St. Petersburg higher educational institutions, worked on Belorussian language and history of Belorussian literature
1900 under his guidance Belorussian students published illegal Belorussian newspaper Svaboda, which was confiscated and proscribed. From 1902 head, Belorussian student organisation Belorussian Education and Culture Circle, which illegally published Belorussian books and distributed them throughout Belorussian. From 1906, after the ban on Belorussian language was lifted, headed legal Belorussian publishing company "The Sun Will Shine in Our Window Too”.
Simultaneously ideological leader, Belorussian Sciences and Literature Circle of Saint St. Petersburg University Students, whose statutes were not ratified until 1912. Edited and published works of Yanka Kupala. 1909-1914 also financed Yanka Kupala’s existence and his study on Chernyayev’s General Education Courses.
Among his papers was the manuscript of the "Anthology of Belorussian Literature,” on which he had worked for 40 years and collected a vast amount of material on Belorussian lit history from ancient times to the 20th Century. After his arrest the manuscript was confiscated by GPU organs. lieutenant is presently kept at Belorussian State Archives of Literature and History.
The ’’Dictionary of Belorussian Living Language,” on which he worked in the last years of his life also has never been published. Summer 1930 arrested for ’’bourgeois and nationalistic” activities and exiled from Belorussian.
Religion
All religious orders impose irrational rules of good and bad behaviour.
Views
The role of the individual as a member of a collective is more important than the individual.
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Nationality
Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics