Background
Dmitry was born on October 25, 1867 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation.
ethnographer interpreter linguist religious scholar teacher historian-indologist.
Dmitry was born on October 25, 1867 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation.
Dmitry was educated in the 6th St. Petersburg gymnasium, where he graduated in 1885 with a silver medal. He graduated from the faculty of history and Philology of St. Petersburg University in 1889 and he was left at the University to prepare for a professorship in the Department of comparative linguistics and Sanskrit. In 1894 he was sent abroad by the University of St. Petersburg, where he studied comparative syntax and Vedic Sanskrit under Berthold delbrück (at Jena).
Returning in 1895 to St. Petersburg, he was allowed to lecture at the Faculty of History and Philology as a privat-docent. He taught Greek at the private gymnasium Of Y. G. Gurevich (1896-1898). Professor at the Department of German and comparative linguistics (since the end of 1898), Director of the library (since 1913) of Yuriev University. For years of stay in Yuryev D. N. Kudryavsky created a scientific school. This school considers the ethnographer and folklorist D. K. Zelenin, researchers of the Baltic languages Latvian Endzelins, professors V. N. Evreinov and L. K. Elias. In Voronezh since July 1918. Professor, head of the Department of comparative linguistics in Voronezh State University (since 1918).
It is interesting that Kudryavsky's textbook on linguistics, published in 1912, was one of the main sources of Stalin's work" Marxism and linguistics " (on the memoirs Of Chikobava). In the 1890s Kudryavsky was a member of the Marxist League of the struggle for the emancipation of the working class, one of the leaders of which were Lenin, in 1930 it was mentioned approvingly by members of the "Language front" and could affect the interest of Stalin to his book.