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Adolf Sonny

Finnish: Adolf Israelsson Sonny, Russian: Адо́льф Изра́илевич Со́нни
Also Known As: "Adolf Sonni"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Keltos, S:t Petersburg, Ingria, Russian Empire
Death: March 08, 1922 (61)
Київ / Киев / Kiev, Киевская губерния / Kiev Governorate , Ukraine, Russian Empire (pilkkukuume; Typhus)
Place of Burial: Байкового кладбища, Київ / Киев / Kiev, Киевская губерния / Kiev Governorate , Ukraine, Russian Empire
Immediate Family:

Son of Israel Sonni and Helena Elisabet Elgeen
Husband of Martha Aleksandrovna Sonny
Father of Ada Sonny; Eugene Sonny; Private and Private
Brother of Friedrich Israelinpoika Sonny; Alexander Karl Sonny; Amalie Sonny; Nikolai Vilhelm Israelinpoika Sonny; Olga Barovsky and 3 others

Occupation: Professor; WStR, vanhain kielten professori Kiovassa
Managed by: Ulla Naparstok
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About Adolf Sonny

💙 Adolf Sonny is Eric Larsson af Kumo's 11th great grandson.

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False information about Sonny's birthplace (Leipzig) and his family background (Jew).

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Nekrologi 21.3.1923 No 77 Uusi Aura

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Born into the family of a Lutheran pastor. He received his higher education at the Russian Historical and Philological Seminary at the University of Leipzig (opened in 1878), which trained teachers of classical (ancient) languages ​​for Russian gymnasiums (graduated in 1882). From July 1882 he began teaching at the 5th St. Petersburg Gymnasium, teaching ancient Greek and Latin. Then, having spent two years on a scientific trip abroad, on June 6, 1887, he defended his dissertation “De Massiliensium rebus quaestiones [On Massilian controversial things]” (Derpt, 1887) at Derpt (now Tartu) University for a master's degree in ancient classical philology.

On July 1, 1887, Sonny began working at the Imperial University of St. Vladimir in Kyiv, lecturing at the Department of Classical Philology as Privatdozent (with a remuneration of 1,200 rubles per year), and soon, on March 2, 1889, by the Highest command, he was appointed Acting Extraordinary Professor at the same department. May 20, 1897 at St. Petersburg University, A. I. Sonny defended his doctoral dissertation "Ad Dionem Chrisostomum analecta [To the fragments of Dion Chrysostom]" (Kyiv, 1897), which, like the master's, was written in Latin, for which he was awarded doctorate in classical philology. July 26, 1897 By the highest order of the civil department (No. 61), he was appointed ordinary professor at the University of St. Vladimir, December 21, 1898 approved in the rank of State Councilor. In 1907, Sonny received a business trip abroad "for a scientific purpose", in February 1909, after 25 years of service under the Ministry of Public Education (in accordance with the Charter of Russian Universities in 1884), he was left in office for another 5 years, in March 1909 - Delegate from the University of St. Vladimir at the International Archaeological Congress in Cairo. On January 1, 1911, "for distinction" he was approved with the rank of real state councilor. On July 1, 1912, he was approved by the Minister of Public Education with the rank of Honored Ordinary Professor; in February 1914, a ministerial pension for 30 years of service in the amount of 3,000 rubles was appointed. in year. He was awarded the Orders of St. Vladimir 3rd class (1914) and 4th class. (1908), St. Anne 2nd (1904) and 3rd st. (1896), St. Stanislaus 2nd, 3rd and 4th class (1891, 1900, 1917).

For many years, A. I. Sonia was the dean of the Faculty of History and Philology and professor of the Department of Classical Philology of the Higher Women's Courses in Kyiv, taught a course in the history of ancient Greek literature at the History and Philology Department of the Evening Higher Women's Courses of Adelaida Zhekulina (current school No. 138), headed Kyiv branch of the Society of Classical Philology and Pedagogy.

Wife of A. I. Sonny - Marta Alexandrovna Fidler (wedding: Transfiguration Cathedral in Vyborg, 04/29/1891). Children: Ada (1892), Eugene (1895), Nina (1900), George (1902). He died in Kyiv from typhus, was buried in the Lutheran section of the Baikove cemetery in Kyiv (the grave has not been preserved).

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Adolf Sonny's Timeline

1861
January 4, 1861
Keltos, S:t Petersburg, Ingria, Russian Empire
1892
May 9, 1892
Київ / Киев / Kiev, Киевская губерния / Kiev Governorate , Ukraine, Russian Empire
1895
July 2, 1895
Київ / Киев / Kiev, Киевская губерния / Kiev Governorate , Ukraine, Russian Empire
1922
March 8, 1922
Age 61
Київ / Киев / Kiev, Киевская губерния / Kiev Governorate , Ukraine, Russian Empire
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Baikov, Байкового кладбища, Київ / Киев / Kiev, Киевская губерния / Kiev Governorate , Ukraine, Russian Empire