Background
KOKOVTSOV, Pavel was born on July 1, 1861 in Pavlovsk, now Leningrad Oblast.
KOKOVTSOV, Pavel was born on July 1, 1861 in Pavlovsk, now Leningrad Oblast.
1884 graduate Faculty of Oriental Languages, Saint St. Petersburg University.
From 1884 associate professor, from 1900 professor, Saint St. Petersburg (Leningrad) University. From 1903 junior assistant, from 1906 member extraordinary, from 1912 member, Russian (Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics) Academy of Sciences. Prominent Semitist with a knowledge of all Semitic languages, including Assyro-Babylonian cuneiform and the monuments of Ethiopian literature
Discovered scores of new Oriental sources. Researched and published a major text of Semitic epigraphy, a trade treaty of the city state Palmira, the Aramaic inscriptions of Nibar from the 9th Century British Columbia and 10th-Century monuments of Hebrew-Khazar relations. Foreign several decades sorted and catalogued the Hebraic and Arabic manuscripts of the State Public Library in Petrograd (Leningrad).
From 1919 head Department of Hebraic Books.