Background
BOGORODITSKIY, Vasiliy was born on April 6, 1857.
BOGORODITSKIY, Vasiliy was born on April 6, 1857.
1879 graduate Kazan’University.
1881-1888 lecturer, from 1888 professor, Kazan’ University, later Kazan’ Teachers’ Training Institute. Pupil of Bodyen de Kurtene. Kazan’ linguistic school.
Worked on general linguistics, phonetics, comparative historical grammar of Indo-European languages, Russian language and Turkic linguistics. At Kazan’ University founded Russia’s first experimental phonetics laboratory. Applied experimental phonetic method to study of rhythm of Russian verse.