Education
Konrad studied at the Oriental Faculty of Street St. Petersburg University, attending lectures by Lev Shternberg at the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography.
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Nicholas Konrad
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Career
After graduation he travelled to Japan and of Korea, studying the languages and undertaking ethnographic study. The war prevented his return to Russia until 1917. Konrad then taught at Leningrad University, and became professor of Japanese language and literature there from 1922 to 1939.
He knew Mikhail Bakhtin in the 1920s, and Bakhtin later cited Konrad, Dmitry Likhachev and Juri Lotman as the three most important Russian literary theorists.
In 1941 he became professor at the Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies.
Membership
Academy of Sciences of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.
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Nationality
Russian Empire Soviet Union