Log In

Nikolay Fyodorovich DERATANI Edit Profile

Nikolay DERATANI, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Philologist. historian of ancient lit; professor; Honorary Sciences Worker of Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. Communist Party member from 1940.

Background

DERATANI, Nikolay was born on March 5, 1884 in Moscow.

Education

Graduate Philology Faculty, Moscow Lhiiv.

Career

Professor, Moscow State Unix and Moscow Lenin Teachers’ Training Institute. Wrote on the lit of ancient Rome. On Vergil. Lucretius and vulgar Latin.

Editor, Khrestomatiya po antichnoy literature. T.2: Rimskaya literatura (Anthology of Ancient Literature. Volume(s) 2: Roman Literature) (1935).

Religion

Religion is bad because it forces people to rely on outside authority, rather than becoming self-reliant.

Views

Every person has rights to express his or her opinion, but the opinion could be expressed if it was in accordance with the general interests of Soviet society.

Membership

Communist Party member from 1940.