Osip Maksimovich Bodyansky

Background

Osip Maksimovich Bodyansky was born on October 30, 1808, in the Poltava Governorate (now Varva, Lokhvytsia region, Ukraine) in the family of Ukrainian priest.

Education

In 1831 Osip Maksimovich graduated from Poltava Theological Seminary, where he learned modern and old Slavonic languages and the Serbian language. In 1834 he graduated from the School of Philology of Imperial Moscow University. As a student in Moscow, he entered Stankevich's circle of intellectuals. Under the leadership of Kachenovsky published his first scientific work, in which he disputed the hypothesis of the Norman origin of Russia. Thanks to this work, he received a Doctor of Philosophy in verbal sciences after graduating from university in 1834.

Career

During the years 1835-1837, Osip Maksimovich taught Latin and history at the Second Moscow Gymnasium. At the same time, he was edited in such magazines as Teleskop, Moskovskiye nablyudeniya with articles of a scientific and journalistic nature.

In 1837, Osip Maksimovich defended his master's thesis. Based on the material of folk songs, he tried to reveal the main features of the national characters of the Slavic peoples, especially Russian, which he interpreted in the spirit of Slavophil idealization. He proposed to divide folk Russian poetry into two main "elements" - southern and northern. And it had a lasting effect on Russian folklore.

In 1845 Osip Maksimovich became the secretary of the Moscow Society of Russian History and Antiquities and the editor of its magazine, where the systematic scientific publication of literary and historical monuments first began. In 1848, the magazine was closed, and he suspended for a year and a half from the professors and from the post of secretary of the society.

In 1855 Osip Maksimovich defended his doctoral dissertation, where he attributed the time of the emergence of Slavic writing to 862. However, thanks to a large amount of factual material, his work is still of significance. In 1857, he became secretary of the Moscow Society of Russian History and Antiquities again and an editor (until 1877) of its renewed magazine, where he published a large number of valuable monuments of ancient Russian literature.

Osip Maksimovich did a lot to strengthen the ties of Russian and West Slavic cultures. He left numerous reviews of the work of foreign colleagues, primarily Slavic scientists. From 1859 he headed the printing house of Moscow University. In October 1868, as a supporter of university autonomy, he was forced to leave the university.

Works

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• book

  • Reestra Vsego Vojska Zaporozhskogo Posle Zborovskogo Dogovora S Korolem Pol'skim Yanom Kazimirom

    (Russian edition)

    2013
  • Della Poesia Popolare Slava...

    (Italian Edition)

    2011

Membership

• Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences , Saint Petersburg City

  1854

Personality

Quotes from others about the person

• Izmail Sreznevsky said: "We did not have many selfless figures like Bodyansky; none can but recognize his merits as important merits worthy of general gratitude."

Connections

Friend:

Mykhaylo Oleksandrovych Maksymovych

Mykhaylo Oleksandrovych Maksymovych (1804-1873) was a famous professor in plant biology, historian and writer in the Russian Empire of a Cossack background.

Friend:

Nikolai Gogol

Friend:

Sergey Aksakov

Friend:

Mikhail Katkov

Friend:

Taras Shevchenko

Friend:

Pavel Jozef Safarik

Pavel Jozef Šafárik (1795-1861) was a Slovak philologist, poet, one of the first scientific Slavists; literary historian, historian, and ethnographer.

References

• Russian writers. 1800-1917. Biographical Dictionary. Volume 1
  1989