Background
Fyodor Spiridonovich Shimkevich was born on February 16, 1802 in Mogilev, Belarusian Governorate, Russian Empire (now Mahilyowskaya Voblasts', Belarus) to a priest family, which had to move to Voronezh because of the war of 1812.
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Fyodor Spiridonovich Shimkevich was born on February 16, 1802 in Mogilev, Belarusian Governorate, Russian Empire (now Mahilyowskaya Voblasts', Belarus) to a priest family, which had to move to Voronezh because of the war of 1812.
Fyodor Spiridonovich graduated the Voronezh Theological Seminary in 1823 and the Kiev Theological Academy in 1827, where he studied Greek, Latin, Jewish, Chaldean, French, German and Polish, Italian, Hungarian, Danish and Swedish languages.
Fyodor Spiridonovich at first worked as the bachelor of the German language, then became an assistant librarian of the academic library in Kiev Theological Academy.
In 1833 Fyodor Spiridonovich worked as the professor of philosophy at the Voronezh Theological Seminary. During 1834-1836 he was the head of the Economic Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Fyodor Spiridonovich died on April 3, 1843 in Saint Petersburg.
Since 1828 Fyodor Spiridonovich worked on his main work - "Korneslov of the Russian language, compared with all the major Slavic dialects and with twenty-four foreign languages", which is actually the first etymological dictionary of the Russian language (more than 1,300 dictionary nests have been disassembled). He is also the author of several works in the journal "Vestnik Evropy".
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